The brand new trailer for the ultimate season of Stranger Issues doesn't reveal a lot concerning the present's previous few episodes, however one character was noticeably absent for a lot of the teaser: Jim Hopper, performed by David Harbour.
Followers shortly seen that Harbour, 50, acquired little or no screentime within the trailer, which dropped Thursday, October 30. “I don't like Stranger Issues a lot, however David Harbour's character's deafening silence within the closing trailer is HILARIOUS,” wrote one X consumer.
One other fan shared a desk of every character's screentime within the trailer, with Hopper coming in final place with simply over 6 seconds on display screen within the 2 minute, 40-second clip. (Joe Keery's Steve Harrington additionally appeared within the clip barely over 6 seconds, ending simply forward of Hopper.)
Hopper seems solely twice within the clip, which reveals the return of season 4 villain Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). In a single scene, he and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) discover the Upside Down, whereas within the different they appear to be inside a mysterious laboratory.
David Harbour within the ‘Stranger Issues' closing season trailer with Millie Bobby Brown. Netflix
The largely Hopper-less trailer comes simply days after Harbour's ex-wife, Lily Allen, dropped West Finish Woman, a scathing breakup album about their divorce, on Friday, October 24. In a number of tracks, Allen, 40, closely insinuates that Harbour cheated on her previous to their 2024 separation. (The previous couple tied the knot in 2020.)
On the opening title monitor, Allen remembers shifting to New York Metropolis with the actor in 2021 earlier than receiving a cellphone name informing her that she had gotten the lead position in a West Finish play. When she knowledgeable her accomplice, she sings that his “demeanor began to vary,” so she went dwelling to London “on their own” to start rehearsals. (Allen starred in each 2021's 2:22 A Ghost Story and 2023's The Pillowman.)
Within the second and third songs, “Ruminating” and “Sleepwalking,” Allen sings about staying up all night time desirous about her accomplice having intercourse with different girls whereas she is away. “Sleepwalking” contains the lyrics, “Been no romance since we wed / ‘Why aren't we f***ing, child?' Yeah, that's what you stated / However you let me suppose it was me in my head / And nothing to do with them ladies in your mattress.”
In an interview printed days after the album's launch, Allen stated she doesn't intend for West Finish Woman to trigger her ex any hurt.
Lily Allen Mike Marsland/WireImage
“It's not a merciless album,” she advised Interview journal in a Q&A printed Tuesday, October 28. “I don't really feel like I'm being imply. It was simply the sentiments I used to be processing on the time.”
She stated the album was written and recorded in December 2024, the identical month that she and Harbour break up after 4 years of marriage.
“I really feel very in another way about the entire state of affairs now,” she advised Interview. “All of us undergo breakups, and it's all the time f***ing brutal. However I don't suppose it's that usually that you just really feel inclined to jot down about it whilst you're in it.”
Whereas some listeners have described West Finish Woman as a “revenge album,” Allen declared within the interview, “I don't want revenge.”
“That's what's enjoyable about this document; it's viscerally like going by the motions. On the time, I used to be actually making an attempt to course of issues, and that's nice by way of the album, however I don't really feel confused or indignant now,” she defined, including that she wished the mission to “really feel brutal and tragic but in addition empowering” as a result of it was “essential” to her that she “didn't sound like a sufferer.”
Harbour has not publicly responded to Allen's claims on West Finish Woman. When requested by Interview how she thought her ex may react, Allen advised the outlet, “I strive not to consider that.”
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 