No matter how hard-boiled a show is, if it exists, there are shippers of it. Even Stranger Things, which followed a bunch of actual children, had fans wondering who would end up with who by the end. Now, it’s nine years and (almost) five seasons later, and these characters (and especially the actors) have grown into young adults.
In Season 3, we watched Will be heartbroken when Mike says, “It’s not my fault that you don’t like girls,” and then Season 4 showed how moving away from Mike affected Will more than just a long-distance friendship. In the current day, it’s pretty obvious that Will isn’t straight, but in the 1980s, that’s a much bigger deal.
