{"id":2212915,"date":"2025-12-26T15:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2212915"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:24:29","slug":"stranger-things-season-5-vol-2-wills-big-revelation-huge-twist-revealed-and-who-broke-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stranger-things-season-5-vol-2-wills-big-revelation-huge-twist-revealed-and-who-broke-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stranger Things\u2019 Season 5, Vol. 2 \u2013 Will&#8217;s big revelation, huge twist revealed \u2014 and who broke up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2FUntitled-1-copy-2-copy.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stranger Snooze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fifth and final season of \u201cStranger Things\u201d dropped Volume 2, its second batch of episodes, on Dec. 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now streaming, episodes 5, 6, and 7 \u2014 respectively called, \u201cShock Jock,\u201d \u201cEscape from Camazotz,\u201d and \u201cThe Bridge\u201d \u2014 were a bland stretch of the show. They include a breakup, a big Will reveal, and more underwhelming moments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery as Steve Harrington and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Spoilers below for \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5, episodes 5, 6, and 7.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The episodes include the gang continuing to battle the evil Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), and working to get Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) back.\u00a0Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Nancy (Natalia Dyer)\u2019s little sister continues to have a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/26\/entertainment\/who-is-holly-wheeler-on-stranger-things-season-5-arc-explainer\/\">bafflingly outsized plot importance in the final season,<\/a> for a random minor character. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, Volume 2 of the final season is tepid. There are no major deaths, and few big surprises or interesting turns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are still stand-out good moments, such as Steve (Joe Keery) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) making up \u2014 after having friction earlier in the season \u2014 and sharing a sweet hug. But after a strong start, Season 5 is having a sophomore slump in its middle stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The biggest developments are Max (Sadie Sink) finally waking up from her long coma. Karen Wheeler (Cara Buono) gets a badass moment, as she kills some demogorgons, saving Robin (Maya Hawke), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and their other pals.\u00a0Will (Noah Schnapp) comes out as gay.\u00a0And Dustin stumbles on a twist about The Upside Down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While perusing Dr. Brenner\u2019s (Matthew Modine) old journals, Dustin finds out that the Upside Down isn\u2019t an alternate dimension, but rather, a wormhole \u2013 a bridge between our world and a sinister world called \u201cThe Abyss.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, and Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Nell Fisher as Holly Wheeler and Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure some scientists will poke plenty of holes in the way we are depicting this,\u201d series co-creator Ross Duffer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/what-is-the-upside-down-stranger-things-5-finally-answers-series-long-mystery-11874655\">told EW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, obviously, this is science-fiction, but at the same time, it\u2019s grounded in some way in ideas of science,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere aren\u2019t ghosts here. We\u2019re playing around with real things because, to us, that made the horror that much scarier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vecna\u2019s evil plan is to bring the Abyss into the regular world, using children to help him do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in more personal matters, Lucas and Max are the strongest relationship in the show. He\u2019s been sweetly devoted to her through her coma, and is tending to her as her body is weak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) break up \u2013 but they did it in such a loving way that many viewers were left confused.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers and Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After they fess up about the things they\u2019ve been pretending to each other \u2013 for example, Nancy tells him that she never liked The Clash \u2013 Jonathan gets out a ring and says, \u201cI figure that I have screwed up enough with you that it\u2019d be nice to get something right for once, in the end. Nancy Wheeler, will you not marry me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He calls it an \u201cun proposal\u201d and they kiss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a breakup,\u201d Matt Duffer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/stranger-things-did-nancy-jonathan-get-engaged-exclusive-11873748\">told People<\/a>. \u201cThey are broken up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alrighty, if you say so. <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to recall when exactly that idea came, but I think us \u2014 and the writers \u2014 all felt that Nancy needed to end up on her own and be independent and have an opportunity to find herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nancy makes it clear that she\u2019s not going to get together with Steve, either. She notes that although he has great hair, he wants \u201csix kids,\u201d which isn\u2019t what she wants for her future. <\/p>\n<p>Many fans weren\u2019t impressed. Posting footage of the Nancy and Jonathan breakup scene <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nataliasfilm\/status\/2004422301455155229\">on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>, one outraged fan wrote,  \u201cyou\u2019re telling me that after this love confession, we only found out they broke up through an ARTICLE? you gotta be kidding me.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah Schnapp as Will in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Towards the end of Volume 2, Will comes out as gay. He gathers all his friends and family and tells them: \u201cI don\u2019t like girls.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a nice moment, but placing it at the end makes it feel like a big plot climax. That\u2019s odd. This show isn\u2019t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/26\/entertainment\/inside-the-cottage-how-heated-rivalry-ended-after-sweltering-debut-season\/\"> \u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>,\u201d where a \u201ccome out\u201d moment is crucial to the plot. It should have happened as a scene in the middle \u2014 like Dustin and Steve\u2019s hug, or Nancy and Jonathan\u2019s breakup. <\/p>\n<p>Noah Schnapp<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/noah-schnapp-will-gay-stranger-things-5-1236612777\/\"> told Variety <\/a>that when he saw the script, \u201cI was just in tears. It was perfect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cast was so gracious,\u201d he went on. \u201cI\u2019ll never forget how supportive they were on that day and how respectful and giving they were to me, because they had to sit there through an entire night just hearing me ramble.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, David Harbour as Jim Hopper, and Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For anyone frustrated that the show had no major deaths, the Duffer brothers hinted that perhaps you should adjust your expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018Game of Thrones.\u2019 We\u2019re not in Westeros,\u201d they told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/stranger-things-volume-2-the-duffer-brothers-interview-1236458696\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cI love \u2018Game of Thrones,\u2019 but it\u2019s just a very different type of show than that. There\u2019s not going to be a Red Wedding situation. I think some things happen in the finale that are very surprising, but we\u2019re not trying to shock or upset anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour series finale of \u201cStranger Things\u201d premieres on Netflix at 8 p.m. on Jan 31, and in select theaters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stranger Snooze.\u00a0 The fifth and final season of \u201cStranger Things\u201d dropped Volume 2, its second batch of episodes, on Dec. 25.\u00a0 Now streaming, episodes 5, 6, and 7 \u2014 respectively called, \u201cShock Jock,\u201d \u201cEscape from Camazotz,\u201d and \u201cThe Bridge\u201d \u2014 were a bland stretch of the show. They include a breakup, a big Will reveal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2212916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,374270,346392,23191,305890,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2212915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-finn-wolfhard","tag-joe-keery","tag-netflix","tag-stranger-things","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Stranger-Things-Season-5-Vol-2-\u2013-Wills-big-revelation.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212917,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212915\/revisions\/2212917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}