Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard has admitted his worries about the mystery-horror show’s upcoming finale. TV endings are notoriously hard to get right, with many shows losing relevance after a poorly received final episode; popular titles like Game of Thrones, Lostand How I Met Your Mother are still used as examples of what not to do.
Stranger Things may not be Netflix’s most-watched series of all time — it’s currently ranked third — but it’s hard to deny that the upcoming final season will have a major impact, not just on Netflix’s output but on pop culture at large, as well. Will creators the Duffer Brothers manage to give the show’s beloved ensemble cast the ending they deserve, while satisfactorily solving the Upside Down’s biggest mysteries?
Wolfhard, who has portrayed Party member Mike Wheeler since Stranger Things season 1, admitted that he (and the rest of the cast) were apprehensive about the show’s final season and how it would be perceived. In a Stranger Things season 5 feature published by myWolfhard reminisced about the immense backlash endured by HBO’s Game of Thrones.
“I think everyone was pretty worried, honestly,” Wolfhard told MY. “The way that Game of Thrones got torn to shreds in that final season, we’re all walking into this going, ‘We hope not to have that kind of thing happen.’ But then we read the scripts. We knew that it was something special.”
When Game of Thrones ended in 2019, the finale was heavily criticized for failing to honor the show’s surviving characters and the emotional disconnect between the ending and the original narrative. It didn’t help, of course, that Game of Thrones’ final season was shorter than its predecessors, making the last few episodes and the resolution of Westeros’ major conflicts feel unnecessarily rushed.
Part of Game of Thrones’ finale problems stemmed from the loss of source material, as the show quickly surpassed the A Song of Ice and Fire books published by George RR Martin. Luckily, that’s not an issue Stranger Things will encounter. This has been the Duffer Brothers’ brainchild from the beginning, and they’ve known the general shape of the ending for a while.
In a separate feature about Stranger Things season 5 published by VarietyRoss and Matt Duffer revealed that the show’s finale “wasn’t something we had a strain to come up with. There were elements of it that were discussed for weeks, but the core idea of the ending, we had for a really long time.”
They also assured fans that they are “really happy with the way it ended,” having used beloved finales like those produced by Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lightsand the previously controversial but now widely praised soprano ending as their inspiration. Even so, Matt Duffer also understandably admitted that it was “nerve-wracking to put it out.”
Stranger Things’ the final will be two hours long; surely, in that time, Hawkins and its inhabitants will finally manage to find some peace.
Stranger Things season 5, part 1, premieres on Netflix US on November 26. Part 2 arrives on December 25, and the finale will premiere on December 31.
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2016 – 2025
- NETWORKS
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Netflix
- Showrunner
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
- Directors
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Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Andrew Stanton, Frank Darabont, Nimród Antal, Uta Briesewitz
- Writers
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Kate Trefry, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Jessica Mecklenburg, Alison Tatlock
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