Stranger Things fans have very quickly slipped into that category of viewer that will not believe the truth being put in front of them because they really wanted to see something else. After spending millions of dollars on the final four episodes of Stranger Things,

Dr. Kay, in charge of using the Upside Down for the military's purposes, isn't shown in the 'Stranger Things' epilogue, so what happened to her?

SPOILERS are ahead for the Stranger Things series finale, now streaming with a Netflix subscription.

Prior to the fifth season, the worst episode according to fans’ ratings on IMDb was the Season 2 departure from the norm when Eleven went to visit “The Lost Sister.” The seventh episode of the second season received a 6.0 (out of 10) rating on IMDb with every other episode receiving a score of 8.1 or better.

The final episode of the Duffer Brothers-created sci-fi show, starring Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp and Jamie Campbell Bower, premiered on the streamer on 1 January

At the time, “The Rightside Up” hadn’t yet come out, so I didn’t know that the only characters that would die would be Vecna/Henry Creel, Kali and Eleven, who is presumed dead, but really her fate is up in the air. Here’s what Ross Duffer told us about killing characters:

There are also three character-focused novels: Brenna Yovanoff’s Runaway Max, about Sadie Sink’s character Max Mayfield; A. R. Capetta’s Rebel Robin, a prequel about Maya Hawke’s Robin Buckley; and J.L. D'Amato’s The Dustin Experiment, which focuses on the character played by Gaten Matarazzo during his freshman year.

The second volume of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 sets the stage for an explosive finale where the residents of Hawkins will finally go face-to-face with Vecna. However, before that, the three episodes provide some crucial answers about what has actually been happening in Hawkins all these years.

Stranger Things was once just "that Winona Ryder show," but it went on to change Netflix, and streaming, forever.

One of the coolest things about Stranger Things is its characters, and in the final season, some definitely stood out more than others.