Be warned: this article contains full spoilers for the Stranger Things series finale, 'The Rightside Up.”'
There’s a lot of pressure on a finale to get things right. You can have multiple great seasons of a TV series, episodes that are considered some of the best hours ever produced, but if you whiff that ending, boy, folks will argue about it until the end of time. Whether it’s a head-scratching decision about who will become King of Westeros, or questions about whether they were dead the whole time (they were not), a bad finale can completely hobble the long-term impact of a series.
