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Stranger Things season 5
Stranger Things 5
8 episodes · 2025
FLICKFEEL
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from 133 comments
COMMUNITY
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YOURS
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what happens
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by rifts. Vecna has vanished and the government has placed the town under military quarantine, forcing Eleven back into hiding. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone together, one last time.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
62
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
63
how much it moved you
Read from 133 comments — 43 said when · across 8 episodes.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
ep 1ep 8
➖ steady — holds one level all the way
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit24 read
“that one scene where vecna sliced through the eyes and mouth of a soldier was so fucking brutal”
interstellarcosmos▲ 5,470about 40–60% inread it ↗
“the enormity of the waterworks when Purple Rain came on”
Mean_Joke_7360▲ 4,885about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That was a perfect ending.”
ancienteggfart▲ 3,301about 90–100% inread it ↗
“this episode was so good!”
AnneShirley310▲ 3,080about 75–100% inread it ↗
episodes
5 of 8 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
