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‘Stranger Things 5’ Director Shawn Levy on Filming Max’s Escape From Vecna, Will’s Huge Breakthrough and the Wheeler Basement on Show’s Final Day: ‘It’s Changed Me Forever’

December 26, 2025

Dec 26, 2025 12:30pm PT ‘Stranger Things 5’ Director Shawn Levy on Filming Max’s Escape From Vecna, Will’s Huge Breakthrough and the Wheeler Basement on Show’s Final Day: ‘It’s Changed Me Forever’ By Jennifer Maas Plus Icon Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer @jmaasaronson Latest ‘Stranger Things 5’ Director Shawn Levy on Filming Max’s Escape From Vecna, Will’s Huge Breakthrough and the Wheeler Basement on Show’s Final Day: ‘It’s Changed Me Forever’ 8 minutes ago How the Kansas City Chiefs Are Reving Up In-House Studio to Make Content That Engages Fans Off the Gridiron 1 week ago Blizzard Entertainment Boss on Bringing Back BlizzCon, Gaming Brand’s 35th Anniversary Plans: 2026 Will ‘Be the Biggest Year Yet’ 1 week ago See All COURTESY OF NETFLIX SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. Once more unto the breach, “Stranger Things” viewers. In the last episode of Volume 2 of the fifth and final season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” the whole Hawkins gang is setting out on a mission to destroy Vecna once and for all by venturing into the Abyss — a world connected to ours via a wormhole we know as the Upside Down.

STRANGER THINGS: SEASON 5. (L to R) Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson and Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in Stranger Things: Season 5. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ©

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