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‘Stranger Things’ Season 5: The 5 strangest and most marvelous moments, so far

EDITOR’S NOTE:  This story contains major spoilers for the first volume of “Stranger Things” Season 5.

Congratulations: You’ve taken time out of your Thanksgiving holiday and made it to the end of nearly 5 hours of Netflix viewing and are up to date (for now) on the final season of everyone’s favorite retro-’80s tween horror tale, “Stranger Things.”

If you’re not, run away back into the Upside Down, since you’re about to be spoiled.

While the story definitely ended with quite a flourish at the close of episode 4 (more on that below), there were a few other truly standout moments from this first of three volumes that will make up the final season.

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In a recent article for The Atlantic, W. David Marx argued that culture as we know it today is a hoarder’s paradise, a hopelessly cluttered landscape of rubbish. “Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, songs, videos, memes, outrageous statements, celebrity meltdowns, life hacks, extremely talented animals,” he writes. My 5-year-old’s favorite song is a version of “Golden,” the standout hit from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, meowed by fake cats. Her favorite TV show is Is It Cake?, a Netflix baking competition seemingly inspired by a viral TikTok trend that involved making trompe l’oeil cakes disguised as random objects. Everything in popular culture feels recycled or reanimated or patched together out of preexisting elements. The dominant art form of the 21st century is the remix.

‘Stranger Things 5’ Spoiler Interview: Duffer Brothers Explain Shocking Volume 1 Ending, Revelations About Will and Max and the Return of [SPOILER]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 1 of “Stranger Things.”

In the battle that concludes Volume 1 of “Stranger Things 5” — in “Sorcerer,” written and directed by Matt and Ross Duffer — it appears at first that all is lost. The murderous creatures of the Upside Down have breached the military zone, and begin a mass slaughter of the soldiers, who’ve underestimated their foes. Elsewhere, Robin (Maya Hawke) and Murray (Brett Gelman) try to bring some of the endangered school children of Hawkins to safety in a truck, as they’re chased by Demogorgons. Meanwhile, the good guys’ biggest assets, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Hopper (David Harbour), are in the base in the Upside Down, where they’ve made an important discovery: Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), one of the other telekinetic kids from the Hawkins Lab experiments, with whom Eleven bonded in Season 2, is alive and being held there.  

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