Warning: Stranger Things 4 spoilers ahead.
“I think there was a version where Dimitri (aka Enzo) didn’t make it,” Matt Duffer told the website, referring to the Russian prison guard. “Then he succeeded. But this is [the most] a radical departure from the original idea to what we ended up with.”
In season four, Dmitry Antonov (Tom Vlaschiha) made a deal with Jim Hopper (David Harbour) to help him escape. However, both were betrayed by another new character, Yuriy Ismailov (Nikola Djurichko).
Dmitri and Yuri – despite his betrayal – quickly became fan favorites. Horror master Stephen King, whose work inspired elements of the Netflix series, even said he’d like to see a spinoff built around Yuri:
Although Dmitri and Yuri – who ended up saving those he had betrayed – survived, the show was less kind to another newcomer.
“Stranger Things 4” has already been watched for more than 1 billion hours, making it only the second Netflix series — and the first in English — to cross that mark. “Squid Game” was the first.
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