US Edition‘Stranger Things’: What Is the Upside Down?
Season 5 reveals the Upside Down as a wormhole linking Hawkins to Dimension X, explaining the origin of monsters like Vecna and the Mind Flayer, with the finale approaching.
- December 25, Volume 2 of Stranger Things Season 5 arrived on Netflix, revealing the Upside Down as a wormhole linking Hawkins, Indiana, to Dimension X.
- The creators say they planned visual explanations years ago, revisiting fans' questions about Will Byers' disappearance and revealing Henry Creel's travel to Dimension X in the stage play.
- Visual effects and practical sets show a melting lab and hourglass-shaped wormhole, with Nancy Wheeler firing at exotic matter that holds the wormhole, while Dustin Henderson draws a diagram explaining it.
- The revelation reframes monster origins, showing that Demogorgons and Mind Flayer come from Dimension X, raising stakes as Vecna seeks to merge worlds and the U.S. government and Russia race to access it.
- As the show nears its end after nearly a decade, the Stranger Things finale on December 31 promises to resolve Henry and Eleven’s major arcs in a two-hour final episode.
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Season 5 of Stranger Things came back with its second batch of episodes that featured a major breakup, possible deaths — and Will opening up about his sexuality. The second part of the show’s final season premiered on Thursday, December 25, with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) trying to remain in control of the Upside Down. Max (Sadie Sink) and Holly (Nell Fisher) make the difficult for him and he soon figures out that Will (Noah Schnapp) has acces…
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Stranger Things 5 Volume 2. After nearly a decade, Stranger Things fans finally have some answers about the Upside Down and the supernatural forces that have been plaguing Hawkins since Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) disappeared on November 6, 1983. The second volume of the series’ final season unveils […]
Stranger Things just used D&D to explain the show's biggest remaining mystery
The nature of the Upside Down has been one of the biggest mysteries of Stranger Things. Even as the characters have become pros at navigating the parallel universe, they still don’t know much about it. That changes in season 5’s Christmas Eve batch of episodes, when a trip to the Upside Down version of Hawkins Lab gives Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) a lot more information. Like so many of the characters in the show, he explains what he learned to his…
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looper.comWhat is the Upside Down? 'Stranger Things 5' finally answers series-long mystery
Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer unpack the biggest-kept secret to date. Netflix The Upside Down in 'Stranger Things' season 5Warning: This article contains spoilers from Stranger Things season 5, Volume 2. The origins of the Upside Down are entangled with the origins of Stranger Things itself.More than 10 years ago, when brotherly filmmaking duo Matt and Ross Duffer first created the universe of the soon-to-be Netflix mega-hit, their bosses…
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