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Look: 'Stranger Things' Cast Watched Finale Together in NYC

The Hawkins group defeats Vecna and collapses the Upside Down; Eleven’s fate is left uncertain but a theory suggests she survived and escaped, creators confirmed.

  • On January 1, the over two-hour Stranger Things finale was released as Hawkins' group defeated Vecna and the Mind Flayer.
  • The plan paired mental assaults inside Vecna's mind with a physical strike in the Abyss, while Hopper and Murray set detonators to collapse the bridge soon.
  • Kali fakes Eleven's presence at the gate and dies inside the Upside Down, while an epilogue implies Eleven escaped as Mike Wheeler suggests she is hiking in a mountain range.
  • As the group leaves the Upside Down, the military confronts them, and an 18-month jump shows Lucas Sinclair, Max Mayfield, Will Byers, Dustin Henderson, and Mike Wheeler graduating while Ted Wheeler is alive.
  • Creators Matt and Ross Duffer close a decade-long story answering Upside Down mysteries since November 6, 1983, while fans on platform X praised climaxes but criticized some character endings, especially Eleven's.
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Deadline broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Thursday, January 1, 2026.
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