Overview
- Following the feature-length finale’s release, reactions have been polarized, with many viewers highlighting unresolved questions.
- Matt and Ross Duffer state there are no significant deleted scenes or secret cuts in Season 5, noting only a tightened rooftop improv sequence.
- The showrunners say Eleven’s fate was left intentionally open to interpretation rather than obscured by edits.
- A spinoff is in early development that will explore a different mythology tied to a specific clue, with new characters, a new town, and no deep focus on the Mind Flayer.
- The brothers clarify the finale’s Montauk reference was an Easter egg and not the setting or premise of the upcoming spinoff.