Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2
The creators of Stranger Things have teased the ‘big’ questions they will be answering as the show comes to its epic finale.
And this promise comes after three more episodes from the fifth and final season dropped at 1am this morning (26 December UK time), with fans somewhat slamming them.
Yeah, it seems not all of the viewers have been loving episodes five, six and seven as some have said Volume 2 is ‘underwhelming’.
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But hey, it’s always going to be a tough pill to swallow when a show that’s been one of Netflix’s biggest for practically the past decade comes to an end after all this time.
Plus, with the over two-hour-long finale set for New Year’s, who knows what the Duffer Brothers still have in store for Stranger Things fans?
‘Big’ questions
So, the episodes so far have finally given viewers a bit more of an understanding about just what the Upside Down actually is.
As some of the gang wandered round the Hawkins Lab in the dark, creepy land, it soon became known that it’s actually a wormhole to another dimension.
Something the creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, have known ‘since season one’.
Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) helps explain that this wormhole helps to connect the town of Hawkins to another dimension that he calls ‘the abyss’ which is where he believes the likes of the demogorgans and Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) have been coming from.
But while fans get this new explanation, it still leaves things unanswered such as just what is the alternative dimension and why is Vecna trying desperately to merge it. Plus, is that the place Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) sent him to way back when?
The brothers told Deadline that the remaining unclear points will be resolved in the finale.
“The goal is to tie up the remaining loose ends and answer any questions that remain,” Ross teased. And he went on to say that in particular, there are a ‘few specifically big ones’.
“Henry and his backstory, and then Eleven and what all this means for her and Kali,” the co-creator added.
Fans’ response to Volume 2
It seems the latest episodes haven’t particularly gone down well with all fans as some criticise the enhancements.
“What I miss the most about Stranger Things is the simplicity of the show, the mystery and atmosphere, they really didn’t have to have enormous budgets, tons of CGI to make it so special to the viewers, we just felt connection to these characters and their struggles,” one wrote.
Others even criticised the writing as they said it’s became ‘cliché’ and ‘stupid’.
With a special scene dedicated to Will coming out as gay, some even said it’s the ‘worst coming out scene in all of television’.
Some simply ranted that the show has ‘become so f**king stupid’ and ‘became too big for its own good’.
“It’s so predictable, so safe and genuinely boring,” another slammed as a second said it’s ‘straight up not good’.
“Stranger Things s5 vol2 so bad it forced me to join twt just to see if it pissed everyone else off and I’m not just being delusional,” a third even said.
Although, it’s not the same for all fans as one celebrated the new drop saying they ‘won so bad’.
“Genuinely cannot stress how much this means to me,” another praised as one wrote: “I will stand up for this f**king show cause it’s a great show. It changed my life, probably changed yours too in ways.”
And others called it a ‘masterpiece’.
Stranger Things Season 5 Volumes 1 and 2 are now streaming on Netflix. The finale lands at 1am on 1 January 2026.
Topics: Stranger Things, Netflix, TV and Film
Jess Battison