'Stranger Things' Season 5 Finale Deep Dive

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 227 minutes

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Summary

Mal and Jo take a trip to Hawkins one last time to dive deep into the ‘Stranger Things’ finale! (00:00) Intro (04:13) Opening Snapshot (28:57) Operation Beanstalk, Part 1: Lab Edition (46:21) Operation Beanstalk, Part 2: Sending Joyce Up That Tower (01:00:51) Operation Beanstalk, Part 3: Time Travel-ish… (01:14:32) A Reminder of Kali’s Powers (01:21:20) Hopper Freaks Out (01:34:14) The Teens (and Joyce) Reach the Abyss (01:40:26) You Know Who Is Running? The Kids. (01:50:28) Meanwhile, Sigh, the Military (02:04:07) Vecna and Henry and One and Will and THE MIND FLAYER (02:19:41) The Party vs. the Mind Flayer (02:35:50) Cue the Prince (02:48:27) 18 Months Later (03:05:40) Dustin Henderson Graduates (03:16:41) Hawkins Forever (03:23:07) Hopper and Joyce Go To Enzo’s (03:25:13) I Want to Believe Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Mallory Rubin Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Social: Jomi Adeniran Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to House of Arts.
0:07.8	It's a new year, but it's still us.
0:09.4	It's 2026.
0:10.5	I'm Joanna Rubin, and we're here today to talk to you about the end of Stranger Things.
0:16.7	Mallory, how are you feeling about?
0:18.7	It's the end.
0:19.3	This is it.
0:19.9	The finale.
0:21.6	After all that, Straud van Dushbag just wins? No, impossible. There has to be something else.
0:29.0	I can't wait to pot today. So many tears, so many laughs, so many things to talk about.
0:33.2	Thank you for your patience, and we'll get into all of that after this.
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