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S5E6
Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz
Stranger Things · 2025-12-25 · 76 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 17 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
As Holly and Max fight to escape Vecna's mind, El must find a way into Will's. Joyce wrestles with guilt. Jonathan and Nancy face a turning point.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
72
how much it moved you
Read from 17 comments — 7 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
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
openingending
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.
Reddit18 read
“I’m bawling”
SunEmpressDivine▲ 2,405about 75–100% inread it ↗
“that shot of the exterior view of the “bridge” was an awesome moment for the series”
WildSinatra▲ 773about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I *CANNOT* with her just pausing as Kate Bush plays and moseying over the portal 😭 like YOU’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE AND IT HAS CLOSED PLZ YOU’RE STRESSING ME OUUUUUT”
loseruserptcruiser▲ 751about 75–100% inread it ↗
“it was the payoff we were waiting for after their fight”
Secret_Debt_88▲ 740
who made it
- directed
- Shawn Levy
- written
- Kate Trefry
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Christi Waldon as Marissa
Linnea Berthelsen as Kali
Randy Havens as Mr. Clarke
Chantell D. Christopher as Doris
Amybeth McNulty as Vickie
Frederick Koehler as Scientist
Boone Platt as MP OFFICER #3