In an interview with Deadline, Ross Duffer shared, "The goal is to tie up, you know, the remaining loose ends and sort of answering any questions that remain, and there are a few, specifically big ones being with, you know, Henry and his backstory and then Eleven and what all this means for her and Kali."

As Stranger Things reaches its end on January 1, 2026, lingering mysteries still demand resolution before the final goodbye.

What happened in the Abyss—and how are Hawkins' heroes and villains faring in the aftermath of their greatest battle?

Volume 2 of Stranger Things Season 5 answers many questions viewers have had about the Upside Down for ages, but we still need other answers.

Eleven accidentally created the Upside Down when she opened the gate in Stranger Things season 1. This happened during her forced experiment at Hawkins Lab. Duffer made it clear that this was not a choice she made freely.

Joe Keery's Harrington always felt like one of the biggest gut-punch deaths in the show's history, which made him biting the dust one of the most obvious predictions for the show's fifth and final season.

Stranger Things season 5 episode 8 deaths explained: who dies in the series finale, how each character is killed, and what the ending suggests about Eleven’s fate.

Stranger Things season 5 was starting to go off the rails, but the two hour series finale was excellent, and a perfect send-off for the show.

Stranger Things came to an end with its finale episode airing on Dec. 31. Netflix revealed what its creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, meant by its ambiguous ending.

This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season,