Stranger Things season 4 has picked up more than a few comparisons to other shows since the arrival of the new trailer earlier this month. The Duffer Brothers have compared it to Game of Thrones, while star Brett Gelman has teased that the Russia-based storyline featuring Jim Hopper is like Indiana Jones and Star Wars. Now, Finn Wolfhard has added his own comparison into the mix by revealing that he believes the series is very much like Harry Potter. With all these comparisons, is there any room left for it to be very Stranger Things?

Wolfhard has grown up with the series, starting out as a youngster way back in season 1, all the way through to the new season and the 19-year-old actor is looking forward to the more mature tone the show is taking. While the entire series has had its fair share of horrific moments throughout its three seasons, there has been an increasingly dark tone, from the first season where everything in Hawkins was light and airy despite the hidden terror of the upside down, to the third when a large portion of the town found themselves being turned to mush by the Mind Flayer has it attempted to build itself a body in the real world. Now, it looks like season 4 is going to get darker still. Speaking to Screen Rant, Wolfhard explained:

“I think inherently it becomes darker every season. It also gets funnier, it gets scarier, it gets more dramatic. That comes with all of us growing up and getting older. We’re not all going to be in mop-top wigs, 40 years old, and screaming about Demogorgons. I think this is a very good example of the Duffers treating our characters like their ages. And I like to compare it to Harry Potter – those movies became darker [the longer they went] and that’s kind of where we’re at now in the progression, in my opinion.”

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There has been plenty said by the Duffer Brothers about the darker tone taken on by the new season of Stranger Things, and when the new trailer dropped, there was no doubting that at all. The trailer even gave a first good look at a very unexpectedly humanoid villain by the name of Vecna, as well as the arrival of horror icon Robert Englund in his role as the murderer Victor Creel. With Vecna being likened by some to Englund’s best-known character, Freddy Krueger, it is not surprising that fans already have come up with theories that Vecan and Creel could be connected.

All in all, Stranger Things has managed so far to be one of the few series that has taken its initial premise and built on it each season, meaning that however dark this year’s two-part fourth season is, there is likely worse to come in the fifth and final season when it arrives. Although that is still a little while off, there are a lot of fans just hoping that the series will end on the same kind of high it has carried this far and not fall at the final hurdle like so many shows that have gone before it.