In the final season of Stranger Things, references to 80s kids-on-bikes classics like E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial and The Goonies stepped aside for a surprising number of references to, of all things, the Madeline L’Engle science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time. Here’s what you need to know about Holly Wheeler’s favorite book in the context of the show.
Holly (Nell Fisher) gets lured to the Upside Down in season 5 by Vecna/Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower). She calls him “Mr. Whatsit” after a character from A Wrinkle in Time. (Later in the season, we learn they met while she was in the school library doing a re-read. He claims to love the book too.) In the novel, Mrs. Whatsit and her sisters Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which summon a girl who doesn’t fit in named Meg Murry to another realm where her father has been held captive.
