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‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale: THR Critics’ Conversation

‘Stranger Things’ Series Finale: THR Critics’ Conversation

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This conversation includes spoilers for the series finale of Netflix’s Stranger Things, which was all about making difficult choices and respecting other people’s difficult choices. We recommend you make the easy choice to watch the finale before reading our thoughts.] DANIEL FIENBERG The first season of Stranger Things, a little coming-of-age pastiche of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg marketed around co-star Winona Ryder, premiered on July 15, 2016, three days before the Republican Party formally coronated Donald Trump as its presidential nominee.  After a prologue suggesting that creepy things were happening at a government lab, the pilot was mostly introducing viewers to a group of nerdy friends who would soon be joined by a mysterious telekinetic girl with short hair in Hawkins, Indiana, circa 1983. Beginning with a heated game of Dungeons & Dragons, it had almost no special effects, but was charming in its hinting and insinuating about all the weird stuff to come, neatly contained in 49 minutes. The series finale of Stranger Things, airing on New Year’s Eve 2025 and taking place in May 1989, …

‘Stranger Things’ Star Noah Schnapp Defends Will’s Coming Out Scene

‘Stranger Things’ Star Noah Schnapp Defends Will’s Coming Out Scene

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains major spoilers through episode seven of Stranger Things 5.] Noah Schnapp was waiting for this moment to come. After reading the scripts for the first six episodes of Stranger Things 5, the actor who plays Will Byers — the boy who was abducted to kickstart Netflix‘s megahit sci-fi series that is now coming to an end — knew that his character would finally be coming out as gay in one of the final two episodes of the series. So when he got the script for the penultimate episode of the Duffer Brothers‘ saga, “The Bridge,” which was co-directed by executive producer Shawn Levy and the show’s creators/showrunners Ross and Matt Duffer, Schnapp took a moment for himself to soak it all in. “I read it alone and just cried and I was like, ‘It’s perfect,’” he told The Hollywood Reporter when speaking about these final episodes. Then when he finally filmed the scene with the majority of his close-knit cast — during a 12-hour day of filming — he felt “a weight …