
The latter part of Season 4 (and a few hints in the earlier episodes) left viewers speculating that Will is gay, but his sexuality was never overtly discussed during the show. The Duffers are yet to comment though, so I guess we'll just have to wait two years or so to see how our beloved Max fares.*sobs* There's already been a whole bunch of theories about what's going on in Max's mind, from Vecna stealing all her memories to her being subconsciously trapped in the Upside Down.

So we may well see the Max we've grown to love come back to us! She's blind, and all of her bones are broken, but yeah, she's doing great!"Īccording to many medical sources including Hopkins Medicine, brain death is irreversible - but this is Stranger Things we're talking about, and Max is only alive in the first place because Eleven resurrected her by entering her mind and showing her happy memories while piggybacking from a pizza dough freezer. Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Duffer brothers said: "She's braindead, but yeah, she's alive. With Eleven shouting into the empty blackness of Max's mind at the end of Season 4, many fans have taken the scene to mean that Max is braindead. However, exactly how that dovetail will happen if there is the time jump that's been mentioned is yet to be explained. With Season 5 dovetailing directly into the final stretch of the show, we won't get any of that character-led catch-up time before we're thrown into the action. Five, you’re just going to be right in the middle of it, so it’s going to feel very, very different.” Then it gets crazier and crazier and crazier - that’s typically the trajectory. , there’ll be no wind-up time - like even, you get to experience the kids and what they’re going through in high school before things start to escalate. Matt continued: “ 4 and 5 are really together. They know what the threat is now, and so that will help speed it up." Ross Duffer added: ", for instance, it was two hours before our characters even realized the monster was killing people in Hawkins. Matt Duffer said: "Normally, it's like 'Oh, we get to revisit the characters in their normal lives and how they're doing and what are their relationships like,' but 5 is just going to be pedal to the metal from the opening scene."

The Duffers have said there will be "less ramp-up" for the show's final season. There's something interesting to re-explore some of the Season 1 dynamics again, except on this grander scale."
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The original group back together - the original group of boys plus Eleven. Coming back together, coming back to Hawkins. But this is about everyone finally coming back. Matt told Collider: "I think one of the things that's exciting about Season 5 is Season 4 was interesting to us because everyone was scattered to the winds.
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The Duffers also discussed how some of the character arcs would come full circle, too, in particular Will, as well as Steve and Nancy's unfinished business and her relationship with Jonathan. for Season 4, accusing the writers of sidelining the much-loved family. This will be welcome news for the fans who complained about the uprooting of the Byers bros. a lot of the original groupings and pairings that we had in Season 1 - there’s something nice about coming full circle.” The Duffer brothers have mentioned that the final season will hark back to Season 1's vibes, with Matt Duffer telling NME: "We wanna go back to a lot of the things we did in Season 1. I know that the writer's room is going to start in that first week of August." The writers are set to have a little vacation in July, saying: "And then we're going to come back.

Together with brother Ross, he said: “Don’t hold us to it, but the gap should be quite a bit shorter this time, due to the fact that we already have an initial outline, and we can’t imagine there will be another six-month forced hiatus.

Show creator Matt Duffer told TVLine that the plans are "pretty well mapped out," but they're just taking on board learnings from working with new actors as well as the ones they got to know closely in Season 4, so things might change a little bit from that outline. The long break between Seasons 3 and 4 might make you feel a little antsy about when we can expect to return to Hawkins, but David Harbour (who plays Hopper) told GQ that he reckons filming will start in 2023, so the show would probably land in mid-2024 going by their previous filming-to-release timescales.
