Stranger Things
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:19.6 | Well, it's over. After five seasons and almost 10 years, the saga of Stranger Things |
| 0:25.3 | has reached its end. In a two-hour finale that Netflix dropped on New Year's Eve, we found out |
| 0:31.1 | what happened to our heroes when they set out to battle the forces of evil. The final season had |
| 0:36.7 | new faces and new revelations, along with |
| 0:39.3 | moments of friendship and conflict among the folks we've known and loved since the night |
| 0:43.7 | Will Byers first disappeared. I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about the final |
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