More than 140K people have signed a Change.org petition demanding that scenes cut from the fifth and final season of "Stranger Things" be released.

While Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2 has its fans, the episodes drew harsher response than the show is used to seeing

Find all the connections from previous seasons and 'The First Shadow' play that may help you connect the dots as you watch 'Stranger Things 5' Vol. 2

Spoiler alert! When Will Byers comes out to his friends and family in the seventh episode of 'Stranger Things' Season 5, it doesn't feel profound.

Ross Duffer and Matt Duffer, brothers and creative partners, attend the "Stranger Things" Season 5 U.K. special screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Nov. 13, 2025, in London. This article contains spoilers from Season 5, Vol. 2 , of "Stranger Things."

As Netflix's meghit series comes to an end, Sink is filled with all the emotions as she closes this chapter with her character Max. She's also ecstatic about what's next.

Honestly, that last bit of Sink’s story feels like a true gut punch of a moment. Of course, at that point, she’d still yet to actually film her final scenes as Max. Later on in the interview, the Fear Street star recalled that “last day,” and she explained why that occasion was “weird” more than anything else:

Ever since “Stranger Things” first debuted on Netflix in 2016, it was evident that Noah Schnapp‘s Will Byers was different from his friends. His own father derisively called him queer, as his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) recounts early in Season 1.

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The two stars of Stranger Things, both 21, have become best friends off-screen ever since meeting on the show in 2015 — so much so that Schnapp is now the godfather of Brown's daughter, whom she welcomed via adoption over the summer with her husband, Jake Bongiovi.