It all comes back to Will Byers. The final episode of Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 1 left fans with a jaw-dropping reveal: that Will has powers. Being able to showcase a stronger, more heroic side of Will was crucial for Noah Schnapp,

Season 5 opens with a flashback to November 12, 1983, six days after Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing. It gives us the first glimpse at what Will was going through while he was in the Upside Down, and it directly ties his disappearance to Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) for the first time.

'Stranger Things 5' is out this week on Netflix, so your window to prepare is dwindling.

This week's Trending Up looks at the big gains for new synchs in the Netflix smash's much-anticipated fifth season, as well as some very different new viral TikTok hits.

Netflix released its final season of 'Stranger Things' last Wednesday and the first four episodes have already accumulated record-breaking viewership numbers.

Season 5 sees Holly Wheeler, Mike and Nancy's younger sister, become a main character. During the first episode of the new season Holly begins chatting to a mystery figure who no one else could see and by the end of the first episode a Demogorgon comes to her house and ends up kidnapping her and taking her into the Upside Down. Or so it seems...

After watching all four episodes of season 5, part 1, we sourced together their strongest theories so far. While the Netflix series is heavy on Henry Creel as the big bad to defeat, the prequel stage play on Broadway,