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The finale of Stranger Things Season 5 aired last week, but fans still believe that a secret, bonus episode is coming. A recent report, though, has thrown water on those thoughts.
According to a new report from THR, Stranger Things Season 5 ended with its eighth episode, “Chapter 8: The Rightside Up,” which aired on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. The report notes that there is no secret, ninth episode of the show, and in a previous interview with THR, creators Matt and Ross Duffer expressed their view of this era of the cast definitively ending with it.
“Mike’s [Finn Wolfhard] closing the basement door. We’re closing the door on the story. That’s one reason we had the closing credits the way we did, because it was a way of saying: ‘This is finite. This is the end of their story. It’s the end of the story of Mike and Eleven and Joyce [Winona Ryder] and Hopper,’” said Matt Duffer. “So, no, there’s no plan or intention to [revisit] the story because it’s a coming-of age story. Ultimately, that’s what it’s supposed to be. That’s what the show always was. When he closes the door to the basement, he’s closing the door on his childhood and he’s moving onto adulthood.”
What are the rumors about Stranger Things Season 5’s bonus episode?
Stranger Things is no stranger (no pun intended) to the world of fan conspiracies. However, things went even further this past week, when fans began theorizing that Stranger Things hadn’t actually ended with the eighth episode of Season 5. According to the theory, dubbed “Conformity Gate” by fans online, the series finale was actually a red herring of an ending, which is theorized to be Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) tricking the children with a fake world.
The “real” ending, according to the theory, was set to be released in surprise fashion on January 7, a week from the fake finale’s release. However, no such episode has released, and it doesn’t seem likely that one will, either. The main cause for the theory, largely, seems to be that fans were unhappy with some of the ways the show wrapped up in its final season.
Originally reported by Anthony Nash on SuperHeroHype.
