The end of an era will soon be upon those who have a Netflix subscription. The long-awaited Stranger Things Season 5 is wrapping up this sci-fi/horror saga that began nearly a decade ago, with eight final episodes being released between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve on the 2025 TV schedule. But Matt and Ross Duffer, who created Stranger Things, are already well into reminiscing mode, and they shared one regret about the show that they needed to learn to live with going forward.
The Duffer Brothers admitted in an interview with Variety that in addition to things like the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 writers and actors strikes delaying Stranger Things Season 5’s arrival, “immersion” was also a self-imposed problem of theirs. They were insistent on directing as much of the series as possible and ended up helming 24 of the 42 episodes, including the series finale. However, this prevented them on working on other things, with Matt saying:
