Duffer Brothers claim to have come up with an ending for Stranger Things years ago

Stranger Things Season 5 is a little more than a month away, and while none of us are ready to say goodbye to the story that has been in the making for the past decade, the anticipation for the final season is unprecedented as well. The speculations around the season's ending have also been growing, especially since the first teaser for the season was revealed by Netflix.

In a recent conversation with Variety, the creators, the Duffer brothers, reveal that they've actually had the core idea about the show's ending in their heads for a very long time.

Keep reading to find out what they revealed about the Netflix blockbuster's ending.

The Duffer brothers have known the core ending of Stranger Things for a very long time

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things is set to be an 18-month time jump from the fourth season's ending, but for the creators of the show, it wasn't more than a month after the fourth season's release that they started to get into mapping out the final season.

All of the characters and storylines that have been opened up in the past four seasons are set to be wrapped up in the final season. The fan theories about the ending have been getting crazier with every passing day. Who lives, who dies, who ends up with whom, if Vecna will be defeated, if Hawkins will ever recover, the questions are endless.

So, for the creators of the show to craft an ending that would answer all these questions while delivering a climactic ending that properly concludes a story that has been building for almost a decade, the stakes have never been higher. Turns out, however, the creators knew how they were going to end the cultural juggernaut that is Stranger Things for a very long time.

"We knew roughly what the end scene was for years — it wasn’t something we had a strain to come up with. There were elements of it that were discussed for weeks, but the core idea of the ending, we had for a really long time."

While they kept going back over their scripts, rewriting over and over, trying to finalize certain elements, the core idea about the show's ending was very clear for the brothers.

The brothers even reveal that to actually craft the ending, which would bring their core idea to life, they studied series finales for shows that they felt were rightly done, such as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and even Friday Night Lights. They reveal that what they understood was that the key was not to try and be super clever or cynical, but to just stay true to themselves.

So, that is the rule they adopted. They decided to make sure that every step of the way, the story was grounded, and it was staying true to what the show was actually about:

"core of innocence and how to maintain that as you grow older and are beset by all of the nightmares of the world."

And at the end of it all, they were "very happy with the way it ended."

We, on the other hand, will have to wait a little bit longer to find out just what that ending was. Stranger Things Volume 1, with four episodes, will release on November 26, followed by three more on Christmas, and the series finale on New Year's.

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