Find all the connections from previous seasons and 'The First Shadow' play that may help you connect the dots as you watch 'Stranger Things 5' Vol. 2

"I hope by the time people get to the end that it feels like there’s something inevitable about what happens," Matt Duffer tells The Hollywood Reporter in a conversation with brother Ross Duffer about the second part of the final season and how it sets up their endgame.

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 has finally hit the streaming site, revealing whether Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers break up or ultimately die. As the show heads toward its series finale, fans are expecting major casualties in the final episodes.

The scene is one of several tear-jerkers in the second volume of episodes, released on Christmas Day. In addition to a whirlwind of emotional sequences, the back half of the season is finally beginning to provide some answers about the Upside Down and the evils that Hawkins has been facing this whole time.

Ever since “Stranger Things” first debuted on Netflix in 2016, it was evident that Noah Schnapp‘s Will Byers was different from his friends. His own father derisively called him queer, as his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) recounts early in Season 1.

Jamie Campbell Bower, Noah Schnapp and The Duffer Brothers spoke to "Good Morning America" about the final episodes of "Stranger Things."

The play reveals that the cave system was where Henry first ventured to Dimension X — now dubbed "The Abyss" in Stranger Things. That's the alternate dimension where the Mind Flayer and Demogorgons are from, as opposed to the Upside Down, which Volume 2 reveals is a bridge connecting the Abyss to our world.

This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season,

Stranger Things 5, Volume 2 brings Max back to life and gives us her reunion with Lucas. It was an emotional return and a very important one. The post STRANGER THINGS 5, Volume 2 Brings Us a LONG Awaited Reunion appeared first on Nerdist.