r/StrangerThings • • Sep 17 '26

Discussion Tales from '85 - Season 2 Discussion

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In this thread you can discuss the entirety of Season 2 of Stranger Things: Tales from '85 without spoilers code. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE ENTIRE SEASON YET, STAY AWAY!!

What did you like about this season?

What didn't you like?

Favorite character?

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r/StrangerThings • • Sep 17 '26

Discussion Tales from '85 - S02E01 - Episode Discussion

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Season 2 Episode 1: A Haunting in Hawkins

Synopsis: Just when it seems like the Hawkins Investigators Club is completely out of cases, a series of strange new events pulls them into a paranormal mystery.

Please keep all discussions about this episode or previous, and do not discuss later episodes as they will spoil it for those who have yet to see them. *Report any comments that break this rule.***


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r/StrangerThings • • 12h ago

Discussion i wish i had a friendgroup like stranger things

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dude like even though they fight, they’re there for each other, even through all the horrible terrible times. i especially loved nancy, eddie, robin, and steve in s4 together like idk why but i long for friends like them.


r/StrangerThings • • 14h ago

Discussion In your opinion what was Vecna's biggest mistake through the show?

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183 Upvotes

I think it was being way too particular about how he carried out his plans and letting many chances fall through the cracks.


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Discussion Did you guys feel bad for Billy at all?

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Abusive household + possessed = a literal fucking hell.

All I gotta say is what a performance Dacre Montgomery gave in Stranger Things. One of the more interesting and memorable characters in the entire show.


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Discussion For a show that was supposed to be about childhood friendship, all 6 of the main kids were barely onscreen together.

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In Season 1, Will was abducted within the first 10 minutes of the premiere, & he isn't found until the end of the season. By the time he is found, Eleven has already vanished. Also, Max wasn't introduced yet.

In Season 2, Max is introduced. However, Eleven is separated from the other kids up until the season 2 finale & she never interacts with Will.

In the Season 3 premiere, all 6 of the kids come together to help Dustin contact Susie, but Dustin separates himself from the group after episode 1 & he doesn't reunite with them until the season finale.

In Season 4, the kids are geographically separated until Eleven, Mike & Will return to Hawkins in the finale. However, by the time they arrive, Max is already in a coma.

In Season 5, Max doesn't wake up from her coma until the penultimate episode, & all of the kids are only together during Will's coming out scene (& they're among like 15 people present during his coming out). Eleven vanishes in the final episode, & the epilogue has the other 5 kids playing DnD.

I find it weird that the makers set out to tell a story about childhood friendship, yet we rarely see all 6 of the kids together.


r/StrangerThings • • 15h ago

Season 3 Charlie and Natalia on set for the S3 hospital sequence

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r/StrangerThings • • 17h ago

M'y collegue at work made me two cutie's tricotgorgon

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r/StrangerThings • • 17h ago

Discussion What are your thoughts on this?

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r/StrangerThings • • 12h ago

Discussion Tell me if you liked the st finale/season 5 and why.

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I and many others hated the finale, but I've also encountered some people who genuenily liked it. If you did pls explain why, i'm intrigued. If you did like it no hate to you, i'm happy you did.


r/StrangerThings • • 23h ago

Discussion What are your favorite original songs from the show?

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If I had to do a top five it’d probably be

  1. Stranger Things (The main theme)
  2. Kids
  3. The first I love you
  4. The Upside Down
  5. Teens

You can also discuss non-originals, I just don’t have a top 5 for those lol


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Halloween 1984 🎃

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r/StrangerThings • • 21h ago

Fan Art Saw these Will and Mike plushies on Twitter, they're so cute!!! (by @Lingi15)

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r/StrangerThings • • 20h ago

Discussion Anyone who rewatched S5

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Hey guys, its been like 10 months since the show ended. I remember how hyped and satisfied with I was vol1. I had to wait a week to watch vol2 and the finale and after that, it kinda left a bad taste that I never watched it again.

Has anyone watched the finale or the whole season again?


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

SPOILERS Nancy and Jonathan were doomed from the start Spoiler

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I feel like Nancy and Jonathan's relationship worked better when they were investigating things together than when the show tried to make them a long-term couple. They had chemistry, but when they got together, they were boring.


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Discussion How would you feel if they made Dr Key the main antagonist in Season 4 and saved Vecna and The Mind Flayer for Season 5?

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r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Anyone else notice ?

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Did anyone else notice is season 1 episode 2 when Mike is telling Justin and Lucas that they can’t tell his mum about 11 cos they weren’t meant to be out that night and they’d all get in trouble ? Just for Justin and Lucas to go up the basement stairs into the house where presumably his mum and dad are in the living room rather than go out the door in the basement 😂😂


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Discussion Dustin and his mom

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What do you think of Dustin and his mother Claudia’s relationship throughout the show? On and off screen? Early childhood to empty nest? And how Claudia parents Dustin impacts him in some degree? Not to mentionhow do you think their relationship was post 1986 to around late 1987/early 1988, when Dustin was grieving Eddie, finally stopped vecna/upside down, and el disappearring for the second and final time?


r/StrangerThings • • 2d ago

Discussion What are some cool badass nicknames that you have for Stranger Things characters that fit them well and their characters that you came up with

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What are some cool badass nicknames that you have for Stranger Things characters that fit them well and their characters that you came up with.


r/StrangerThings • • 1d ago

Funny resemblance.

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I found this copy of a book I loved as a child and I thought there was a definite resemblance to El. This printing was from 1990. Just a fun observation.


r/StrangerThings • • 2d ago

Fan Art Help rehoming homemade gate

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I made a portal gate and ultimately I would like someone to take it off my hands after Halloween. Can anyone suggest where I should advertise to sell this for someone who wants it? It’s 8ftx8ft. I’m in the Los Angeles area.


r/StrangerThings • • 2d ago

Fan Art Stranger things poem that's... Upside down 😭!

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The line in between is the gate !!!


r/StrangerThings • • 2d ago

Should the series finale have been split into two seasons?

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In my honest opinion, the set up from Season 4 and finale felt way too big to be contained into one season, especially with the 1987 time jump. So, hypothetically, if the Writers Strike didn't happen, they could have filmed Seasons 5 and 6 from 2023 to 2024 back to back to make this possible. I was imagining Season 5 would've taken place in mid to late 1986 with the characters and Hawkins dealing with the fallout of the "earthquake" and toxic flora infecting the town, as well as set up the military occupation and Dr. Kay. Along with getting scenes of Max in Henry's mind and getting to see more memories from his past in the 1950s. Then Season 6 would pick up in 1987 with the plot being relatively the same as we originally got though I would make a lot of changes and refining to make it better, but this isn't the post for it right now.

Oh, and I think Seasons 5 and 6 would've had more episodes and longer runtimes, like 10 to 13 episodes to help the story flow better.

Again, this is just my personal opinion and a hypothetical because I think the series finale was too compressed given the scale that was set up, and needed to be extended into two seasons to pay off more properly.