Conformity Gate comes as " Stranger Things " released its final episode on Dec. 31. The finale left some fans disappointed and wanting more. And Conformity Gate believers think that an additional episode will show the current finale was just a fake-out and that the beloved main characters didn't defeat Vecna after all.

Sometimes, a random encounter with a stranger can be remembered for many years. That’s exactly what happened to the heroes of this article, who got into unexpected situations where strangers were able to brighten up their day.

When Stranger Things first premiered in 2016, it wore its many ’80s influences on its sleeve. That nostalgia still permeates the fifth and final season, but nearly a decade later, the rollout of its grand finale felt distinctly modern — and that included the messy fallout of Will Byers’ (Noah Schnapp) long-awaited, controversial coming out scene.

In the two-hour-long series finale of Netflix's "Stranger Things," here's how everything comes to an end for our friends in Hawkins.

The scene is one of several tear-jerkers in the second volume of episodes, released on Christmas Day. In addition to a whirlwind of emotional sequences, the back half of the season is finally beginning to provide some answers about the Upside Down and the evils that Hawkins has been facing this whole time.

Joe Keery's Harrington always felt like one of the biggest gut-punch deaths in the show's history, which made him biting the dust one of the most obvious predictions for the show's fifth and final season.

2008’s The Strangers is one of the most simple and straightforward horror films a person could conceive. It’s just two people being terrorized in a house by three masked strangers for 90 minutes until they get murdered. Writer-director Brian Bertino ...

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer spoke with Deadline about crafting the series finale of the beloved Netflix series