The 23-year-old Wolfhard spent the past decade making the hit Netflix series, which premiered in 2016 and aired its finale on Wednesday, revealing the fates of the entire Hawkins gang. Aside from his efforts to collapse the Upside Down on Stranger Things, his work has been very SNL -adjacent.

Over the course of five seasons of Stranger Things, Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) went from a timid young high schooler to a self-assured, gun-wielding force in her town’s fight against inter-dimensional monsters.

At the time, “The Rightside Up” hadn’t yet come out, so I didn’t know that the only characters that would die would be Vecna/Henry Creel, Kali and Eleven, who is presumed dead, but really her fate is up in the air. Here’s what Ross Duffer told us about killing characters:

The first of Stranger Things' upcoming projects is scheduled to arrive in 2026 under the title Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85. This animated series features the original protagonists, including Mike,

Netflix’s "Stranger Things" creators defend Will Byers’ coming-out scene after it was review-bombed, calling it key to defeating their villain.

WWE Raw x Stranger Things will celebrate WWE's one-year anniversary on Netflix as CM Punk faces Bron Breakker for the WWE World Championship.

Therefore, Stranger Things is not a Dungeons & Dragons game invented by Mike Wheeler. The Duffer Brothers have stated that the series is a supernatural drama that draws from the 1980s culture, horror, and fantasy storytelling, with DnD being a symbolic framework, not a narrative twist.

After five seasons, Netflix's sci-fi horror hit wrapped up with an exhausting two-hour extravaganza that, unsurprisingly, delivered lots and lots of … stuff — but very little legacy-building substance.