Before the feast, the gorge.

Such is Netflix’s diabolical strategy to deliver the first four episodes of the final season of its monster hit Stranger Things — after a three-year hiatus! — on the night before Thanksgiving. (The next batch arrives on Christmas night, with the series finale arriving on the night of New Year’s Eve.)

These long-awaited episodes feel like events, to be sure, though not exactly family viewing. Unless you’re the Addams Family maybe, who might get their jollies watching terrifying monsters from the underworld invade suburban homes to snatch children for the most nefarious purposes.

Any review of the final season at this point would by nature be incomplete — not just because of the streamer’s laundry list of spoilers, but because there’s still much more to

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