The Stranger Issues finale documentary featured interviews with most solid members, however David Harbour and Winona Ryder had been noticeably lacking from the particular.
Netflix launched the two-hour particular One Final Journey: The Making of Stranger Issues 5 on Monday, January 12, the place creators Matt and Ross Duffer documented the expertise of filming the fifth and closing season of Stranger Issues. Cameras adopted Ross and Matt, each 41, behind the scenes within the writers’ room, on set and within the days main as much as manufacturing coming to an finish.
Whereas the crew and the solid had been interviewed about their time on the present, there have been some stars who had been absent from One Final Journey. Harbour, 50, and Ryder, 54, had been seen in footage from the desk learn however there have been no one-on-one confessionals with them regardless of their costars sitting all the way down to replicate on their particular person journeys.
“There aren’t interviews with individuals past the present itself. It’s the Duffers, it’s the solid, it’s the division heads,” director Martina Radwan instructed Selection on Friday, January 9. “There’s a lot details about Stranger Issues out on the planet that I wished to maintain it within the bubble. Something that you have to know outdoors of the present, you will get — it’s on the market.”
Radwan confirmed that Ryder and Harbour didn’t movie any content material, including, “No, they’re not [in it]. We simply didn’t get the time. They had been busy with different tasks, and so we didn’t have the time to sit down down.”
The outlet, nonetheless, famous that a lot of the solid was accessible — with Millie Bobby Brown being interviewed in costume.
“That was Millie’s concept! She was like, ‘That is my final day, I’m in character,’” Radwan maintained. “Sadly, with David and Winona, we couldn’t discover the time. We tried.”
Stranger Issues targeted on a fictional city the place a sequence of supernatural occasions came about and brought about thriller and mayhem. The hit Netflix sequence grew to become a pop-culture phenomenon — however it was additionally recognized for lengthy gaps between filming and prolonged episode runtimes. Season 5 concluded almost a decade after Stranger Issues initially premiered.
Off display screen, the present made headlines in November 2025 when studies surfaced that Brown, 21, allegedly “filed a harassment and bullying declare” in opposition to Harbour “earlier than they began capturing the final season.” Based on the Each day Mail, Brown claimed she was bullied and harassed by Harbour on set, however the grievance didn’t embody allegations of sexual misconduct.
Brown and Harbour placed on a united entrance on the Stranger Issues season 5 premiere later that month.
“In fact I felt protected, I imply, we’ve labored collectively for 10 years,” Brown instructed Deadline on the time. “I really feel protected with everybody on that set.”
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She continued: “You naturally simply… you understand, you’ve been doing it for thus lengthy. We additionally play father and daughter so naturally, we’ve got a more in-depth bond than the remainder as a result of we’ve got had some actually intense scenes collectively, particularly in season 2. David and I’ve an amazing relationship, we work actually intently collectively within the scenes and making ready for the scenes and I actually am excited to see … for everybody to see the labor of affection and onerous work we’ve put into the closure of our relationship and what that appears like.”
Harbour, for his half, hadn’t addressed the studies. The actor, who has been going by a messy high-profile break up from Lily Allen, reportedly had a number of cases the place he exhibited regarding conduct in public. He subsequently skipped a number of deliberate appearances and dropped out of a starring position in new film Behemoth!
“I’m protecting of the individuals and the fact of my life. There’s no use in that type of participating [with rumors] as a result of it’s all primarily based on hysterical hyperbole,” Harbour beforehand instructed GQ Hype in April 2025 about internet hosting private life, including that he didn’t wish to encourage a “salacious s***present of humiliation.”
Stranger Issues is at the moment streaming on Netflix.
