2022 feels like a different universe: the pandemic was drawing to a tentative conclusion, Liz Truss was Prime Minister for less than a lettuce’s lifetime, and Chris Rock got slapped at the Oscars. It’s also when we last visited Hawkins: where Indiana’s pluckiest teens and most chaotic adults fought to stop the world from being enveloped by a Lovecraftian nightmare.

Three-and-a-half years on, one of the jewels in Netflix ’s crown returns for a final chapter, and completes its own unlikely underdog rise. Despite its initially low-profile cast and nostalgia for an era that was over before much of its audience had been born, Stranger Things became a phenomenon, each season expanding and improving its scope while folding in star-making turns from Maya Hawke (Robin), Joseph Quinn (Eddie)

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