Well, Stranger Things fans, the Upside Down has been detonated, and our favorite friend group is moving on with their lives. As long as you watched the season 5 finale, you should know that the tear-jerking, 2-hour episode had a bittersweet conclusion for all characters, especially Eleven. But is the show really over?
Maybe so, but this is still the era of sequels, prequels, reboots and spinoffs! Therefore, the possibility of a continuation is never out of the question for any TV series.
Find out if there’s any hope for the Stranger Things universe to continue or if its season 5 finale was really the end.
Yes, at least for the main group of friends, the Duffer brothers confirmed that Stranger Things is over. During an October 2025 interview with Variety, Matt Duffer confirmed that the whole story is “done.”
“We do every last remaining thing we wanted to do with the Demogorgons and Mind Flayer and Vecna and the Upside Down and Hawkins and these characters,” he noted, adding, “This is a complete story. It’s done.”
Though the Duffer brothers said that the season 5 finale wraps up the story, there is still the animated series, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. Moreover, the creators confirmed that they were in the “early days” of a “live-action spinoff.”
“We’re very early days on a live-action spinoff. But this is the end of the story for these characters of Hawkins, for the Upside Down,” Ross Duffer explained. “It’s a different decade and different characters, but of course, still connected to the Stranger Things universe.”
