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The Stranger Things Finale Left These 15 Plot Holes Wide Open

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Entertainment - January 6th 2026, 17:00 GMT+1
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1. If Will is still connected to the Mind Hive, why does he survive?

This isn’t the old “why isn’t Will possessed again” question – it’s nastier: the finale leans into the idea that Will is feeling Vecna and actively tapping into his mind during the endgame… and then acts surprised by its own rules. One recap even points out the weirdness directly: both Vecna and the Mind Flayer feel the damage during the fight, and yet it “oddly” doesn’t hit Will the same way, even while he’s plugged into the hive mind and using his powers in the battle. That’s basically the show admitting, “Yeah, this should hurt him, huh?” And if Will’s connection is strong enough that Vecna can talk to him inside his head and Will can help turn the tide, then Vecna getting impaled, ripped apart, and ultimately executed should logically send something catastrophic back down the line. Instead, Will walks away with the emotional equivalent of a migraine and a meaningful stare, when the story’s own wiring implies he should’ve short-circuited the second Vecna did. | © Netflix

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2. No demogorgons, demodogs, or demobats show up in the Abyss

You’re telling me the show invents an even scarier “final boss neighborhood” and then forgets to stock it with… literally any neighborhood dogs? The Duffers have said Vecna wasn’t expecting a sneak attack on his home turf, and that the creatures are “somewhere,” but he didn’t “need” them once the Mind Flayer itself was the weapon of choice. Sure, fine – except Vecna has spent five seasons being the pettiest control freak alive, and “not expecting company” doesn’t really fit a guy who treats minds like open tabs. They also admitted they debated adding another monster fight and backed off (partly to keep focus, partly because of straight-up “demo fatigue”), which is honest… and also kind of the problem: the Abyss looks huge, empty, and weirdly unprotected for the franchise’s most guarded villain real estate. | © Netflix

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3. The military just lets everyone walk away, even though Hopper and Nancy have literally killed soldiers

What makes this one sting is that the show does remember the military exists… for about five minutes. In the finale, Dr. Kay’s forces reportedly capture the crew the moment they’re back on the “normal” side of things – then the story smash-cuts to an 18-month jump where it’s graduation caps, job plans, and cozy epilogue vibes. Cool montage, but where’s the part where the U.S. government processes the fact that Hopper and company just blew up an interdimensional bridge, escaped custody, and left behind a trail of bodies and classified wreckage? Nancy doesn’t get so much as a “well, that was a messy deposition,” and Hopper’s arc glides past the obvious consequences like the writers hit fast-forward to avoid paperwork. If there’s an amnesty, a cover story, or even a “we blamed it on an earthquake again,” the season keeps it off-screen – conveniently, suspiciously, and a little lazily. | © Netflix

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4. What happened to the pregnant women the military was rounding up?

That scene lands like a brick because it’s not monster horror – it’s human horror, and it’s specific. Dr. Kay is rounding up pregnant women as part of a government scheme to replicate Eleven’s “weaponized childhood” pipeline, and then the show basically moonwalks away from the implication. The Duffers have since addressed it bluntly: Kay’s plan failed, and those pregnant women died because the blood experiment didn’t work. That’s an answer, technically… but it’s also insane that the season treats “mass deaths of captive pregnant women” like a grim sidebar you can clarify later in an interview. No on-screen fallout, no characters confronting it, no reckoning with the fact that the supposed “save the kids” season includes a government plot that kills a whole group of vulnerable civilians. It’s less a loose end than a missing staircase – like the story built a moral horror setpiece, then decided the audience didn’t need to see where it leads. | © Netflix

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5. Joyce and Hopper supposedly went to high school with Henry Creel, yet neither of them recognizes him

The show practically dares you to notice this one. In Episode 4 (“Sorcerer”), Max moves through Henry’s memories and the series drops a quick-but-loud 1959 Hawkins High glimpse where a teen Joyce (still Joyce Maldonado) is right there, handing out flyers for a school production that includes Hopper and Henry. It’s not subtle; it’s a neon sign that says, “These adults share a backstory with your villain.” And then… nothing. Joyce never has a “wait, Henry Creel?” moment, Hopper doesn’t connect the dots, and the finale even lets Joyce be the one to kill Vecna without ever acknowledging she’s basically executing a guy who once existed in her yearbook orbit. Reportedly, the Duffers have said there was a version where Joyce and Hopper talked about realizing who Henry was, but it was cut so the season wouldn’t lean on lore from The First Shadow stage play and confuse viewers who haven’t seen it. That might be a practical franchise decision, but on-screen it plays like selective amnesia – because the show itself already put the evidence on camera. | © Netflix

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6. What happened to Dr. Owens after he’s captured?

You can practically hear the writers’ room door closing on Sam Owens the moment the camera cuts away. The last clean on-screen status we have is: he’s alive, he’s in military hands, and he’s basically the human USB drive for everything the government still wants to know about Eleven, Project Nina, and whatever nightmare fuel is left under Hawkins. And then the Season 5 finale treats him like a tab you accidentally closed and can’t recover. The wild part isn’t even that he’s missing – it’s that nobody says his name like it matters, which is a bold choice for a guy who’s been steering the “science side” of this show since Season 2. | © Netflix

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7. Why is there a perfectly normal water tank in the Upside Down, complete with water?

Some continuity errors are tiny. This one is a whole pool party. Earlier seasons make it pretty clear that the Upside Down doesn’t “behave” like Hawkins when it comes to basic environmental stuff – including bodies of water that look… conspicuously not watery. So when the finale has Hopper helping Eleven into an honest-to-God full water tank inside the Upside Down version of Hawkins Lab, it lands like a glitch in the simulation. Did the tank get filled because the wormhole is bleeding reality into itself? Did someone haul water across off-screen like it’s a Costco run? The show doesn’t even toss a one-line hand-wave, which is impressive in the same way it’s impressive when a magician refuses to explain a trick because the trick isn’t actually finished. | © Netflix

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8. Why did Vecna specifically need twelve children?

Vecna insisting on twelve kids feels like the kind of detail that’s begging for lore: a ritual number, a rule of the Abyss, a nasty little equation in Brenner’s notes. Instead, Season 5 frames the children as “vessels” – easy to shape, easy to control – and leaves the exact math floating in the air like Upside Down spores. Which is frustrating because the finale stakes are literally planetary, and “twelve is enough to move the world” is the sort of claim that needs one concrete rule to hang onto. If the show wanted clock symbolism, it could’ve said so on-screen; if it wanted raw power scaling, it could’ve shown why twelve matters more than ten or twenty. As it stands, it plays less like mythology and more like the writers picking a number that sounds ominous and hoping nobody asks follow-ups (hi, it’s us, asking). | © Netflix

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9. How is Max graduating with everyone else when she wasn’t attending school?

Here’s the thing: I wanted to cheer. Max getting a normal milestone after everything is the kind of emotional payback this series used to nail. But the timeline does the show no favors. We’re told she’s been gone – comatose and trapped – for a long stretch, and then the finale-era time jump still lines her up with the same graduation ceremony as the rest of the crew. That’s not impossible (schools do make accommodations; people catch up; life finds a way), but the series never bothers to show the “how,” which matters when you’ve made her recovery such a big deal. One quick scene of tutoring, makeup credits, summer school, anything would’ve turned this from “wait, what?” into “okay, fair.” Instead, it lands like the season wanted the graduation photo op more than it wanted the logic that earns it. | © Netflix

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10. Murray doesn’t even get a real epilogue, which feels wild for a character who’s been carrying plots on his back for seasons

Murray Bauman is the rare supporting character who became structural: when the show needed translation, conspiracy glue, or a vibe check with a side of vodka, he was there. So the finale giving him a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it presence (instead of an actual “where is he now?” beat) feels weirdly stingy. It’s not that every character needs a retirement montage – it’s that this character has been a narrative workhorse, and the season still can’t spare him a clean wrap-up. Let him write a book, start a podcast, get subpoenaed, accidentally become mayor of Hawkins, whatever. Anything that acknowledges he’s more than a background extra in the final curtain call. Because if the final season is going to stumble, the least it can do is let Murray stumble into a satisfying last joke. | © Netflix

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11. The “infecting stone” that corrupts Henry is never properly explained, nor the doctor in the mineshaft

The finale finally lets us peek inside that creepy briefcase… and then immediately acts surprised when we still have questions. Yes, it’s a pulsing black stone threaded with red, and yes, the implication is that it’s basically a piece of the larger evil calling to Henry like it’s ordering takeout. But the show never cleanly lays out the rules: is this a Mind Flayer “seed,” Abyss shrapnel, Dimension X malware, or just a convenient rock with villain vibes? And the lab-coated “doctor” in the mineshaft – injured, paranoid, and armed – gets played like a crucial breadcrumb, yet his identity and mission are left hanging unless you’ve done extracurricular homework outside the series. That’s not “mystery,” that’s “final exam, no study guide.” | © Netflix

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12. Robin’s never takes her girlfriend to Enzo

Season 5 makes a point of dangling Enzo’s like it’s the romantic promised land: the normal date Robin can’t quite have because Hawkins keeps insisting on being a nightmare. And then the epilogue swerves, hands that exact “nice dinner, new chapter” moment to Joyce and Hopper instead, and basically tells Robin, “Congrats on love… now enjoy a vague off-screen situation.” If the show wanted Robin and Vickie to be open-ended, fine, but it’s the setup that makes this sting. You don’t plant a sweet, specific promise (Enzo’s!) and then never pay it off, especially when you’re already racing through a flash-forward that’s supposed to feel like closure. It plays less like realism and more like the writers forgetting they’d written a check the finale refused to cash. | © Netflix

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13. How did Derrick fit through that tiny opening?

There’s a point where the show asks you to believe in physics the way it believes in government competence: blindly, and with a straight face. In Henry’s mindspace escape route, that rock gap is framed as tight enough that even Max has to fight for it – hands, shoulders, the whole uncomfortable “please don’t get stuck here” vibe. The camera sells it as a narrow squeeze, which is why it’s genuinely funny (and not in the way the show intends) when Derrick later pops through like he’s sliding into a booth at a diner. Either that opening is bigger than the scene dramatizes, or Derrick is secretly made of rubber, or the finale just decided continuity was a “nice-to-have.” For a show that obsesses over spatial tension, this is a weird place to get slapdash. | © Netflix

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14. During the final fight, how does everyone get to the top of the cliffs so fast?

The finale’s battle plan is basically: “Okay, you go distract the nightmare god-creature, and the rest of us will teleport to higher ground.” The official beats are clear enough: Nancy draws the monster toward a canyon while Jonathan and Robin attack from above with a flamethrower and whatever they can throw down. The problem is the how: the show doesn’t show the climb, the path, the scrambling, the logistics, or even a throwaway line like “there’s a ridge around back.” It just cuts from chaos at ground level to “surprise, we’re on top now,” which drains tension instead of building it. If you’re going to stage a vertical ambush in a finale, the ascent is part of the suspense – otherwise it feels like the characters unlocked fast travel right before the end credits. | © Netflix

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15. The show forgot about Suzie Bingham, AKA Dustin’s girlfriend

Suzie isn’t just a random cameo from seasons past – she’s been a real emotional (and plot-saving) presence for Dustin, which is why her Season 5 absence feels less like “scheduling conflict” and more like “did we misplace a character?” No call, no radio moment, no throwaway line confirming they’re still together, not even a tiny joke acknowledging she exists somewhere in Utah wondering why her boyfriend keeps almost dying in other dimensions. And that silence gets louder in the epilogue, where Dustin’s future beats move forward without any clear nod to what happened to the relationship at all. If the finale wanted to imply they drifted apart, it needed to actually say it or at least hint with intention, not omission. As it stands, Suzie’s disappearance reads like the show speed-running its own goodbye tour and leaving one suitcase on the curb. | © Netflix

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I wanted to love the final season. I showed up ready to get wrecked emotionally, applaud the big swings, and forgive a little weirdness for the sake of a good goodbye. Instead, I got a finale that felt like it sprinted through the finish line while dropping half its luggage on the track – dramatic, sure, but also messy in a way that’s hard to unsee once you notice it.

And yeah, it wasn’t Game of Thrones “call a wellness check” bad, but it was still rough. The kind of rough where you’re enjoying a scene and then – bam – your brain trips over a missing explanation and faceplants into the plot. So I started keeping a petty little list, and now you get to benefit from it: the biggest unresolved Stranger Things plot holes and unanswered questions the finale left behind, whether it meant to or not.

I wanted to love the final season. I showed up ready to get wrecked emotionally, applaud the big swings, and forgive a little weirdness for the sake of a good goodbye. Instead, I got a finale that felt like it sprinted through the finish line while dropping half its luggage on the track – dramatic, sure, but also messy in a way that’s hard to unsee once you notice it.

And yeah, it wasn’t Game of Thrones “call a wellness check” bad, but it was still rough. The kind of rough where you’re enjoying a scene and then – bam – your brain trips over a missing explanation and faceplants into the plot. So I started keeping a petty little list, and now you get to benefit from it: the biggest unresolved Stranger Things plot holes and unanswered questions the finale left behind, whether it meant to or not.

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