Why Will’s ‘Stranger Things’ Coming Out Speech Strikes an Emotional Chord

Key Highlights

• They’re, together, fighting Vecna, the malign force that wants to destroy the entire world, but that has been bedeviling Will in particular since the show’s first episode.
• Back when he was first kidnapped and taken to the Upside Down, Will had been a slight and awkward boy who found himself picked on and scrutinized.
• Older and somewhat more secure now, Will realizes that Vecna, the evil being, is manipulating his insecurities.
• He’s trying to prise him away from his friends by showing him a vision of himself as abandoned by his friends and totally alone; in order to make sure that’s just a dark fantasy, Will needs to unburden himself.
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