Photo by: James Warren/Famous/STAR MAX/IPx 2025 11/13/25 Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown attend the “Stranger Things Season 5” on November 13, 2025 in London, England.
Stranger Things viewers are reacting to the ending of volume one, calling it “mad” and the “wildest” TV cliffhanger of the year, according to The Independent.
Fans of the hit show have binged season five’s first four episodes after their arrival on the service on Thursday (27 November) and have been left stunned by the closing moments.
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At the end of episode four, Will Byers (Noach Schnapp) steals the power that Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) has over the Demogorgons to save his friends, including Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Robin (Maya Hawke). In short, Will temporarily gains superpowers.
Reviews have been mixed. Ed Potton in a four-star review in the Times said the first four episodes of season five are “richly entertaining stuff with proper jeopardy and bags of emotion”. Another four-star write-up, by Jack Seale in the Guardian, declared that “this luxurious final run will have you standing on a chair, yelling with joy”.
But not everyone was so enthusiastic. The show “seesaws between thrilling and annoying”, according to USA Today‘s Kelly Lawler, while the Atlantic‘s Sophie Gilbert described most of it as “largely joyless and grim”.
Read more about the latest volume of Stranger Things here.
