Key Highlights
- The recent episodes have dragged the season’s fan-driven Rotten Tomatoes score from the 70s down to 56%, a stark decline from the show’s previous seasons.
- (For reference, the Season 4 Popcornmeter sits at 89%, Season 3 at 86%, Season 2 at 90% and Season 1 at 96%.) A backlash campaign seemed to ignite after the Netflix series’ penultimate episode, “The Bridge,” which features a scene in which Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) comes out as gay to his friends.
- The lengthy monologue came as the Hawkins gang geared up to face Vecna, the big bad from the Upside Down.
- “The Bridge” is now the lowest-rated episode of “Stranger Things” on IMDb, with a score of 5.4 out of 10.
- (It’s the only episode below a 7.8, with most ranging between 8.6 and 9.2.) More than 96,000 users reviewed “The Bridge” on IMDb, while most other episodes this season have been rated by fewer than 50,000 people.
