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With just 10 days to go until we inch ever closer to the end of Stranger Things, Netflix has released a new trailer for the show’s penultimate batch of episodes. Which means it’s high time for the show, its audience, and its characters alike to start wondering: just what the hell is the Upside Down, anyway?
We’ve known it’s been coming since the Duffer brothers started teasing it in the run-up to the first part of Stranger Things‘ fifth and final season, but our first proper look at volume 2 definitely wants you to know that definitive answers as to just what the mysterious other plane of existence that is the Upside Down is are coming. Oh, and maybe the end of life as our heroes know it, but what’s that next to some good old-fashioned mystery teasing?
Appropriately set to a remix of Diana Ross’ “Upside Down” (what else, at this point?), the new trailer sees the scattered kids begin to enact their plans to stop and kill Vecna, from Eleven recruiting some help from Eight (the returning Linnea Berthelsen), to Will recovering from the shocking events of part one that saw him learn how to tap into Vecna’s powers. Meanwhile, the main man of the hour himself is messing around with poor Holly Wheeler and waxing lyrical about the new world he wants to build out of the ashes of the old one.
Stopping that, of course, might need a few dramatic sacrifices to be made, so it’s probably not going to help fans’ concerns over which of their faves might not make it to the end that we even get a nice big death flag tease for Dustin and Steve here, as they promise that if they’re going out, they’re going out together.
Hopefully that won’t be the case, but we’ve only got 10 more days before we find out: the second volume of Stranger Things season 5 will hit Netflix as a bonus present under your tree on December 25, before the show goes out with a bang in theaters and on the streamer on New Year’s Eve.
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