This article contains spoilers for "Stranger Things" season 5, episode 1 — "Chapter One: The Crawl."

Imaginary friends, huh? On "Stranger Things," a show that thrives on mind control and paranormal deception? Surely, that will go well.

The "Stranger Things" saga starts in 1983 and the events of season 5 take place in 1987. This means that Mike Wheeler's (Finn Wolfhard) younger sister Holly (Nell Fisher) is now old enough to take a more active part in the narative. Speaking of narratives, Holly seems to have grown into an avid reader, and the "Stranger Things" season 5 premiere ("Chapter One: The Crawl") shows her reading Madeleine L'Engle's 1962 fantasy classic "A Wrinkle in Time." She's also acquired an imaginary friend who absolutely isn't quite as imaginary as one might think, calle

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