SPOILER ALERT! This post contains major plot details from the first four episodes of Netflix ‘s Stranger Things 5.

In the eighteen months since nearly succumbing to Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), Max Mayfield ( Sadie Sink ) is still in a coma. Or, at least, that’s how it appears when audiences first catch up with the Hawkins crew at the beginning of Stranger Things 5 .

Episode 4, titled “Sorcerer,” provides some clarity on what’s actually been going on with Max when Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) finds her in the depths of Henry’s mind. It appears that’s where she’s been laying low, at least mentally, since Vecna killed her in order to open the fourth gate between Hawkins and the Upside Down. While Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) was able to revive her physically, she was not able to

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