We all knew this day would come. The Duffer Brothers couldn’t possibly hope to keep Hawkins trapped in a nightmarish alternate version of the 1980s forever, no matter how many synth soundtracks and vicarious pop culture references they threw at us.
Stranger Things officially ended this New Year’s Eve with a feature-length series finale that delivered monster-slaying catharsis, some measure of emotional depth, and just enough ambiguity to keep Reddit theorists employed through 2030. If you’re still processing (or simply couldn’t tear yourself away from champagne duties), here’s everything that went down in “The Rightside Up.”
