Did 'Stranger Things' Stick the Landing?

In 2016, when the world was first introduced to Stranger Things—the Duffer brothers’ hit Netflix fantasy adventure that follows a group of kids in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, as they try, repeatedly, to save the world from supernatural ruin in the 1980s—I don’t think anyone expected it to unfold into a nearly decade-long saga. Yet, here we are, with a fifth and final season officially in the books after its staggered release between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. With the finale episode, a two-hour special titled “Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up” that hit the streaming platform on New Year’s Eve, the world says goodbye to Hawkins and the lovable gang of kids we watched grow up within it.