Spoilers below for the seven people or so who still haven’t yet watched Stranger Things’ series finale via Netflix subscription, so be warned!
2025 may be in the rear view, but Stranger Things’ final season is still very much atop the zeitgeist, largely due to a series finale that further polarized the extremely vocal fanbase. (The two-hour episode’s theatrical screenings, which helped make things more emotional, brought in a whopping $25 million, though none of it technically counted towards the weekend box office.) Vecna and Eleven’s respective fates are dominating the conversations, and since I’ve already shared my thoughts on why Mike’s theory is bogus, I’d like to shift the focus to Will’s flash-forward sequence.
