Across Stranger Things’ five-season run, less than a handful of named characters have met their maker. Despite all of the life-threatening situations our Hawkins heroes (and villains) find themselves in, we’ve only said goodbye to Barb, Bob, Eddie, Brenner and well, that’s it. There was Chrissy and others too, of course, but as it stands, all of the major players are still alive and kicking.
All that looked set to change going into the Netflix show’s ongoing final chapter, with creators Matt and Ross Duffer teasing a tearjerking closer and warning longtime fans that it’d boast “the most violent death of any season”. Turns out, though, we may not lose anyone in the two hours and eight minutes that remain…
Elsewhere in the interview, Matt opened up on how “challenging” it has been to come up with an ending that feels satisfying, admitting that it’s impossible to cater to the wide demographic of tuner-inners’ hopes because they seem to all be tuning in for their own reasons.
“When you read about people reacting to the show, sometimes I feel like they’re watching very different shows. And in a way, they are, right? They’re fixated on different aspects of the show that are more important to some people than others. It just gets confusing,” he noted. “So you can’t really work towards satisfying [everyone], because who are you choosing to satisfy?
“At the end of the day, you do kind of have to shut out all the noise and just listen to your gut and the other writers with whom we’ve been working with for so long, and hope that what we feel is right resonates with everybody else.”
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