Netflix releases first 8 minutes of Stranger Things 4

You’ve heard this before: Stranger Things Season 4 is almost here and we are getting more news fast. We know Millie Bobby Brown described the season as some of the “scariest, scariest things that I’ve ever seen as a human;” that the nine episodes will be split into seven and two for the respective drops (the first release on May 27, the next on July 1). We also know it’ll be the longest episode of Stranger Thingsever by episode count as well as runtime.

And now, we can also watch the first 8 minutes of the new season — and revisit the Hawkins National Laboratory, where things are going horribly, horribly wrong.

The season 4 clip, released on Netflix’s YouTube, shows Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) working with one of the other superpowered children in the facility that raised Eleven (Brown). He tries routine testing but the facility suddenly goes on high alert and starts hearing pleas for help.

In the end, eight minutes of taut comedy is enough to make you want to watch it again and again. It’s a great lead-in for a season that has been touted as the funniest but darkest one yet, even if we don’t get a closer look at the Vecna of it all.