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In an interview with Variety, Stranger Things showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer spoke about getting the final season right and paying off all of the various threads that came before, and that meant finally answering the question of the Upside Down. Going into the writers’ room, Ross says he knew the biggest questions were, “about what the Upside Down was. Every season would be like, ‘Should we talk about it?’ And we’d go, ‘No, let’s wait.’ And then finally, we’re like, ‘Well, we have to now!’”
Matt assured fans that they had the chance to execute their full vision for the Upside Down and the creatures that live there. “We do every last remaining thing we wanted to do with the Demogorgons and Mind Flayer and Vecna and the Upside Down and Hawkins and these characters,” Matt said. “This is a complete story. It’s done.”
Stranger Things Isn’t Leaving Anything on the Table
The script for the finale took quite a few attempts to nail down, and part of the process was studying other series finales and seeing what really worked and what didn’t. Ones that clearly worked were finales of Six Feet Under, Friday Night Lights, and The Sopranos, and they took away one key message from all of those. “The best ones were very true to themselves,” Ross said. “The shows that are trying to be super clever — I think that’s where it can go wrong really quickly.”
