Stranger Things’s Next Volume Isn’t Going Down Without a Fight
“It’s not over,” Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers tells her son, Will, in the new Stranger Things trailer. “Not by a long shot.” Yes, she’s referring to the characters’ fight against Vecna, but it also applies to the show itself, which somehow still has several hours of story telling left to go. Set to Diana Ross’s 1980 track “Upside Down” (How have they never used that song before?), the new teaser promises tons of action. Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) goes wild with a machine gun! Jane (Millie Bobby Brown) vows to “kill” Vecna! The evildoer himself morphs from sexy Jamie Campbell Bower to evil monstrosity! Notably not heard from in the trailer is Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), who ended the first batch of episodes by realizing his powers and telekinetically killing three Demogorgons that were about to murder his best friend (and beloved) Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard). There is one shot of him, pupil-less and in a trance, but he doesn’t say anything in the clip, so he could really be up to anything in the next volume. Ideally, he and Jane will bond over their shared powers and love of Mike.
And in the face of all that, fan favorites Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) and Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) promise each other, “You die, I die.” They’ve come so far from when Steve was just a bored babysitter. Find out if the duo makes it through the night when the next three episodes of season five drop on Christmas Day, ahead of the finale on New Year’s Eve. Vecna better be ready.
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