Stranger Things Season 5 Vol. 2 ended with the promise of an action-packed 2-hour finale, where the entire cast of our Hawkins heroes will square up against Vecna, aka Henry Creel, and his machinations one last time. But what happened in Vol. 2, and how does it set up the last act of Netflix’s most popular original series?
After eight years of confronting Demogorgons, interdimensional portals, and sitting through the resurgence of certain ‘80s sensations like Kate Bush, the show’s penultimate batch of episodes arrived on Christmas Day and expanded on the fictional world’s lore like never before, answering questions about the Upside Down, offering semi-resolutions to certain character arcs, and preparing the viewers for an emotional feature-length finale that will drop on December 31.
