Stranger Things Season 5 closes the door on Hawkins’ darkest era. Explore moments, choices, and sacrifices that shape the unforgettable finale.

Questions remain about the fate of Eleven, and talk of a secret 9th episode on Jan. 7 has bubbled up on social media.

Whether Eleven lives or dies at the end of Stranger Things is left up to viewers, but Millie Bobby Brown is giving her thoughts on El's fate.

So instead, upon seeing that Ted is alive and well, one only has to assume that his grief was entirely focused on Eleven, which then allows for his optimistic outlook to have peak impact. If he'd been too much of an emotional wreck during graduation day, it might have made his D&D-tethered theory sound far more desperate and nutty than idealistic.

Now that it’s all over, we know how the story ends—with Vecna and the Mind Flayer defeated, the Upside Down destroyed for good, and Eleven seemingly left for dead following a heroic sacrifice to stop the government from using her blood to restart their experimental program to develop psychic children.

Matt and Ross Duffer explain everything about the 'Stranger Things' series finale, including Eleven's ambiguous fate, the final battle and that rock.