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<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Duffer brothers, creators of the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things,” have addressed the backlash to a main character’s coming out scene.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“The coming out scene is something we’ve been building to for nine years now. It was a really important scene for us, and a really important scene for [actor Noah Schnapp] — not just from a thematic point of view, but also a narrative point of view,” Ross Duffer </span><a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stranger-things-finale-is-eleven-alive-vecna-killed-rock-spinoff-1236621528/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">told</span></a><span style="font-weight:400"> Variety in an interview published Thursday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">He added, “This show has always been about our characters overcoming evil, and in order to overcome this evil, Vecna, in so many ways, represents all the dark thoughts and the evil of society. And for our characters to overcome that, it really becomes about embracing themselves, and then also embracing one another and coming together.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Fans were disappointed by the penultimate episode of the series, giving it the lowest rating out of all episodes and trashing it on social media, as The Daily Wire previously </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stranger-things-episode-gets-record-worst-rating-for-series-woke-ruins-everything" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight:400">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight:400">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“Woke ruins EVERYTHING,” one X reaction said. “Netflix decided to RUIN their most popular show of all-time, Stranger Things, by focusing their final season on Will coming out as a homosexual, promoting the propaganda that Will’s superpowers are because he’s ’embraced his sexuality’ &; the villain telling Will that his friends won’t like him if they find out he likes dudes.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The Duffer brothers insist that Will’s coming out was an essential part of the show.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Matt Duffer called it “the final step in Will’s journey” and noted he was “surprised” by the backlash since he insists the show has been building up to this all along.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“Volume 1 is really about self-acceptance, right? I mean, that’s sort of step one,” he said. “And then step two is Will is talking to Robin — it’s something that he wants to do. He’s trying to figure out how to come out, and he knows that he needs to do that, and that that’s the final step for him. And he finds the courage to be able to do it. And it’s really the ultimate f*** you to Vecna. That was the intention.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">“We’re proud of the episode, and we’re proud of the scene, and proud of Noah, who gave a really brave, very vulnerable performance,” Ross told the outlet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Schnapp had an emotional reaction to the scene he revealed during an interview with Netflix’s Tudum.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“I was really nervous to see how [the Duffer Brothers] would write it, because it was obviously so important for me. And I remember when they sent out the script for Episode 7 for that scene. I read it alone in my room, and I was crying, and it really resonated with me,” the actor said of his character coming out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">“I hope it touches everyone — not just queer people — and makes them feel emboldened and empowered to be who they are and be proud of who they are,” he told Tudum. “That goes back to the heart of our show: What makes you unique is your superpower.”</span></p>
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