The Stranger Issues sequence finale had an 18-month time soar — however was there a post-credits scene as effectively?
Netflix’s hit sequence concluded on Wednesday, December 31, with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) lastly being defeated and the Upside Down getting destroyed. There have been a number of casualties nonetheless with Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) dying on display screen … though the latter is as much as debate relying on who you ask.
The battle wasn’t the ultimate scene of the present. Within the aftermath, viewers acquired a time soar over a yr into the longer term the place we caught up with every group (from the children to the youngsters to the younger adults to the adults) earlier than Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dusin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp) and Max (Sadie Sink) performed one last marketing campaign collectively.
Mike predicted the place he noticed his mates find yourself — and even shared a principle on how Eleven might nonetheless be alive. Then they left the basement to go to their lives exterior of Hawkins, as Mike’s sister Holly (Nell Fisher) and her mates went downstairs to take their place.
That was the final scene within the fifth and last season of Stranger Issues. Regardless of the chance for an open ended conclusion, Stranger Issues didn’t trace at extra hazard, a by-product of story traces nonetheless eft to be advised. There was additionally no post-credits scene that indicated the place the Stranger Issues franchise goes from right here.
Created by Matt and Ross Duffer, Stranger Issues centered on a fictional city the place a sequence of supernatural occasions passed off and triggered thriller and mayhem. The hit Netflix sequence turn into a pop-culture phenomenon — nevertheless it was additionally identified for lengthy gaps between filming and prolonged episode runtimes. Season 5 concluded practically a decade after Stranger Issues initially premiered.
“Seven years in the past, we deliberate out the whole story arc for Stranger Issues,” an open letter from the manager producers said in February 2022. “On the time, we predicted the story would final 4 to 5 seasons. It proved too massive to inform in 4 however — as you’ll see for yourselves — we at the moment are hurtling towards our finale. Season 4 would be the penultimate season; season 5 would be the final.”
The duo continued: “There are nonetheless many extra thrilling tales to inform throughout the world of Stranger Issues: new mysteries, new adventures, new surprising heroes. However first, we hope that you simply stick with us as we end this story of a robust woman named Eleven and her courageous mates, of a damaged police chief and a ferocious mother, of a small city known as Hawkins and an alternate dimension identified solely because the Upside Down.”
As viewers put together for the fifth and last season of Stranger Issues, creators Matt and Ross Duffer introduced that the Upside Down won’t be closing its gates but. In February 2022, the writing group mirrored on the way forward for Stranger Issues in an open letter to the followers. “Seven years in the past, we deliberate out […]
The Duffer brothers later confirmed that they have been engaged on a by-product.
“So we have now an concept however the concept is to finally cross the baton to another person who’s hopefully gifted and passionate. Even the thought of Ross and I doing a pilot after which leaving it, it simply feels foolish to me. It is advisable be there from the start to the tip. We have to discover a accomplice to assist us with that,” Matt defined throughout an episode of the “Joyful Unhappy Confused” podcast in July 2022. “I don’t wish to do one other decade within the Stranger Issues universe. [But] we do wish to be very concerned.”
The writing duo added: “It’s 1000 p.c completely different from [Stranger Things]. It isn’t following [any of the main characters]. That isn’t fascinating to me as a result of I really feel like we have now executed all that. It is rather completely different. But it surely shares a reference to Stranger Issues and probably the most connective tissue is the storytelling sensibility of it. There’s story that connects to Stranger Issues.”
Stranger Issues is at present streaming on Netflix.
