Employment at Scoops Ahoy By the time summer arrived,
Steve has already graduated from high school (he was in his senior year during season two) but is not going to college because his father refused to foot the bill for it. Steve did not do well enough in high school to earn any scholarships, so without his parents' money he can't afford to go.
Steve is revealed to be one year older than Jonathan and Nancy, with the character having just graduated from high school in Stranger Things season 3. In Stranger Things season 4's spring 1986 timeline, Steve was 19 years old.
The only almost “adult” of the crew, Steve is 17 when we meet him, and he is a junior at the height of his popularity and falling in love with Nancy Wheeler. Joe Keery was 23 years old when the show was filming.
Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is battling Vecna and her senior year of high school during Season 4. That puts her at around 18. Natalia Dyer is 27.
By the time summer arrived, Steve graduated high school. However, because he had been so focused on popularity during his years in high school, Steve did not have the grades to go to college.
Character age: When Robin first stepped onscreen in Season 3, it was revealed that she is a school year behind Steve, making her born in 1968 and 17. In Season 4, she is either 17 or 18.
Season 3. Now graduated from high school, Steve works at the Scoops Ahoy! ice cream parlor at Starcourt Mall with Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke), a former classmate who teases him frequently.
According to Chester Rushing on social media, he played Tommy as having had romantic feelings for Steve, which played into Tommy's anger and resentment when Steve cut ties with him.
Joe Keery (age 30) as Steve Harrington (age 19 in Season 4) Joe Keery is one of the older “kid” actors on the show. He's supposed to be 18 going on 19 in Season 4, fresh out of high school and on to bigger and better things at the local video store.
The school year in S2 was 1984-1985, and if Steve was a senior then, that means during the 1983-1984 school year, he was a junior, making him a year older than Nancy . . .
Stranger Things season 5 won't kill off Steve Harrington despite the show's threats, as proven by a look back on the story of Joe Keery's character.
In the first season of Stranger Things, Steve Harrington did have a girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler, played by Natalia Dyer.
She is the older sister of Mike Wheeler, the former girlfriend of Steve Harrington, and the current girlfriend of Jonathan Byers.
After Steve and Nancy went to a party, Nancy got drunk and she said that their relationship was curse word and they broke it off.
While it seems possible that something could happen between them in the next season, Nancy and Steve do not get back together in Season 4.
Lizzie is in love with Thomas, and while he definitely cares for her, her love is unrequited. In the final episode of Series 2, Lizzie attempts to explain her feelings to him, but gives up trying when it becomes evident that he's not even listening. After Grace's death, Lizzie becomes Thomas' emotional crutch.
Olivia is a girl Tommy meets at a mountain resort in the episode "Fear of Falling". Olivia becomes Tommy's first love interest and she eventually provides him with his first kiss.
Peaky Blinders fans were left furious after Tommy Shelby had steamy sex with. The barnstorming episode featured a bomb, torture and dramatic plot twists, but it was Tommy (Cillian Murphy's) romp with Nazi sympathiser Diana (Amber Anderson) that had viewers up in arms.
What Happens to Steve Harrington in Stranger Things Season 4? Basically, it's a brave season for Steve, Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Robin (Maya Hawke) as they infiltrate Vecna's lair. Thankfully, all three of them come out alive.
In Season 4 vol. 1, episode 6, The Dive, viewers are kept on the edge of their seats when Steve dives into a lake to find the Upside Down portal. On resurfacing for air, the Upside Down World vines capture his leg and drag him through the portal.
Provided he actually ages in the Upside Down, Vecna could be in his late 30s in 1986, the year that Stranger Things season 4, volume 1 takes place. Vecna became a monster seven years prior, when Eleven defeated the adult Henry Creel, a.k.a. Number One, at Hawkins Lab and he became banished to the Upside Down.
As it turns out, Robin doesn't want Steve, because she wants another person entirely, one who also happens to be a girl. This scene is one of the best the series has to offer, and not just because Keery and Hawke both knock it right out of the park.
A loopy Steve Harrington, drugged by Russian operatives, confesses his feelings for his new friend Robin Buckley. The two work together at the ice cream shop Scoops Ahoy and unravel a top-secret Russian scheme together. They're bonded now. It makes sense that they'd fall in love.
But Maya said that Robin coming out as gay wasn't always the plan. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Maya said that the decision the Robin wouldn't end up with Steve was made gradually. "Throughout filming, we started to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn't get together, and that she's gay.