Stranger Things Season 5’s biggest twist, that the Mind Flayer was the real villain all along, was pretty well signposted.

Vecna was controlled by Mind Flayer but by the end he chooses to not to resist and be a part of the evil entity.

Stranger Things Season 5 does something very sneaky and very smart. It turns Season 2 of the show into the emotional and story backbone of the entire show. Not Season 1.

The Stranger Things series finale featured a huge showdown between Vecna joining the Mind Flayer fighting the rest of the ...

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All things considered, the series finale of “Stranger Things” was better than that of most popular OTT titles I can think of.