Matt and Ross Duffer explain everything about the 'Stranger Things' series finale, including Eleven's ambiguous fate, the final battle and that rock.

In the high school graduation scene, Dustin delivers the valedictorian speech and at the end, you give Principal Higgins the finger at the end. A lot of fans have picked up on that as a callback to something Joseph Quinn says as Eddie in season 4. Was that an intentional reference?

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer address fan theories, "Byler," deleted scenes, and answer our biggest questions after Season 5.

There are also three character-focused novels: Brenna Yovanoff’s Runaway Max, about Sadie Sink’s character Max Mayfield; A. R. Capetta’s Rebel Robin, a prequel about Maya Hawke’s Robin Buckley; and J.L. D'Amato’s The Dustin Experiment, which focuses on the character played by Gaten Matarazzo during his freshman year.

Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo spoke with Deadline about Dustin's grief journey in Season 5 and more from the finale

After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season, creators Matt and Ross Duffer offered answers aplenty, while also setting up the potentially tragic stakes of the series finale.

This interview contains spoilers for Stranger Things 5, Volume 2. As Stranger Things enters its final stretch, director and executive producer Shawn Levy remains one of the creative minds most closely associated with the show’s cinematic identity.

Over the course of five seasons of Stranger Things, Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) went from a timid young high schooler to a self-assured, gun-wielding force in her town’s fight against inter-dimensional monsters.