Duffer Brothers did something in Stranger Things Season 5 that we only expect Christopher Nolan to do

Everything you saw in Stranger Things will change with its Season 5 Episode 6, Escape from Camazotz. As Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) says during Volume 2's trailer,

"This whole time, everything we've ever assumed about the Upside Down has been dead wrong."

Why he said that becomes clear within the first few minutes of Episode 6. Dustin explains to Steve (Joe Keery) that this place is just a bridge between two worlds. And we see it as soon as he finishes explaining it. The larger-than-life wormhole while divine music accompanies this scene in the background.

What the Duffer Brothers, the creators of the show, did here is something that we usually expect from Christopher Nolan films. Remember Gargantua from Interstellar (2014)? Well, no one has presented a black hole on screen more accurately so far.

Now, it is safe to say that no one has presented a wormhole more accurately on screen than the Duffer Brothers so far.

Duffer Brothers knew it was a wormhole since Stranger Things Season 1

It wasn't until after 40 episodes that the mystery of the Upside Down was finally solved. But it was clear for the Duffer Brothers since Season 1 of the show that it is going to be a wormhole. In a recent interview with Deadline, Ross Duffer said,

"We’ve known it was a wormhole since Season 1, but it’s one thing to say it, and it’s another to try to figure out how to visualize such an abstract concept."

When Christopher Nolan was trying to figure out how he would bring about the visualization of the giant black hole, Gargantua, in Interstellar, he had to go through a similar dilemma. However, it was thanks to Kip Thorne, the scientific consultant working closely with him on the film, that they were able to figure everything out. And it was a visual spectacle.

About how the Duffer Brothers figured out the visualization of the wormhole in Stranger Things Season 5 Episode 6, it was one of the writers who helped them out. Matt told Deadline that,

"One of our writers, Paul Dictor, his superpower is the harder sci-fi aspects of the show. He’s read every hard sci-fi book that there is,” Matt said. “As far as [when] it comes to this stuff, he’s smarter than Ross and I are, so he’s playing these things, and Ross and I are basically the Steve in the room going, ‘Huh?’ Illustrations help a lot. So we take a lot of those conversations that we have in the room and the way we help everybody understand it and map it onto the show."

After 41 episodes into Stranger Things, we now know it is "The Abyss" and not the Upside Down. The grand finale of the show will drop on December 31, 2025, which will also see a release in some select theaters too.

Interstellar has the key to understand the wormhole

If, after seeing that wormhole in Stranger Things, all of a sudden, your brain is adamant on knowing more about it, we can tell you that Interstellar gave the answer following the release.

There's a book called The Science of Interstellar, written by Kip Thorne himself, that explains the concept more clearly than anything. Not just that, it includes so many scientific concepts that you will start to think of yourself as a scientist after you have finished reading it.

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