Before hitting the endgame, 'Stranger Things' had to tie off some threads and help the Hawkins gang get their heads in the game.

This article was originally published on winteriscoming.net as Everyone’s turning on Stranger Things 5 — but the Duffers have never let fans down in a finale. Stranger Things 5 is officially the lowest-rated season of the Netflix original series after seven episodes, but there's still time to change that.

The latest Stranger Things season has made a splash, and the series (which has spanned nearly a decade) will finally wrap with an oversized finale on New Year’s Eve. On Rotten Tomatoes, it is now the lowest-ranked of all Stranger Things seasons.

While Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2 has its fans, the episodes drew harsher response than the show is used to seeing

Stranger Things has been hinting at this reveal throughout Season 5. Look no further than its references to A Wrinkle in Time, which features wormhole-like tesseracts. Or how about Mr. Clarke fully teaching a class on Einstein-Rosen Bridges, aka wormholes?

"I hope by the time people get to the end that it feels like there’s something inevitable about what happens," Matt Duffer tells The Hollywood Reporter in a conversation with brother Ross Duffer about the second part of the final season and how it sets up their endgame.

However, viewers were kept in the dark until season five's second batch of episodes, now streaming on Netflix.

Now that Volume 2 of 'Stranger Things 5' is out, and we know what the Upside Down is, we ask 13 questions going into the series finale on Dec. 31.

Eight became a big character in the final season of "Stranger Things," but who plays Eleven's vindictive sister?

Joel's song "The Stranger" came out on his album of the same name, released on Sept. 29, 1977. It was his fifth studio album, but it was arguably his breakout release, holding the second spot on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for six weeks.