SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 1 of “ Stranger Things .”

The good news for “Stranger Things” fans upon the release of Season 5’s first batch of episodes: Sadie Sink ‘s comatose Max Mayfield is still able to talk, run and even interact with other characters. The bad news: She’s doing all that from inside Vecna’s mind, where she’s been trapped in a 1950s version of Hawkins for more than a year while her physical body is still in a coma in the hospital.

Max properly re-enters the fight for Hawkins in Episode 4, when she reveals to Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) what she’s been up to while her mind has been stuck in the dream world of Vecna/Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower). Holly’s there now, too, and Max is going to do her best to get them out of t

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