STRANGER THINGS FINALE: Reviewed! 

It’s a Stranger Things finale special! We simply had to do it. Because we share a lot of things in common with Stranger Things. Ultimately, across years and years of episodes … our show is also a show about growing up. A real coming-of-age story, if you will. Just don’t ask for a numerical value of said age. And also … despite all manner of tangents and unexplored B-stories, the true meaning of both Stranger Things and the Cultural Content Consumption Hour is obviously: friendship. Awwww. So there. Eat that, haters. 

Do we have any fun for you in the show notes today or what? Firstly, we have joined the internet discourse just saying all the things about the Duffer brothers. ALL THE THINGS. Well not all the things. The internet is on a mad one, as ever. We’re barely saying some of the things. Scratching the surface of some of the things. But good, we deserve our say also. On this day of all days, a week after the finale dropped … and, the day after secret episode was supposed to drop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrk83qt

Hahaha remember when there was supposed to be a secret album after The King of Limbs? Lol. 

And also, we got to get into our feels! Love a series finale! Love some zeitgeist! And after literal *years* of hosting a cultural review show together, we love suddenly talking about the last episode of a show that we have both watched the entirety of that we have somehow never talked about before!

Welcome to … *the last special* … for now? TO BE CONTINUED!

Variety’s chat with the Duffer brothers sheds some light: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stranger-things-finale-is-eleven-alive-vecna-killed-rock-spinoff-1236621528/

Finn Wolfhard directed a George Harrison video. That’s 1 more song by a Beatle he’s directed a video for than any of us have so fair play mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0d_P11B6Tg

The My Mom’s Basement boys talk about the Stranger Things with more of a vibes and details approach as opposed to our vibes, some whimsy and more vibes one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZDPGV8V3vg

Taskmaster announcement vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OP6DuihCnk

Kumail is sad about Eternals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x19a62o1Co&t=10s

Tweet of the week via Ryan Satin: https://x.com/ryansatin/status/2007219967687831706

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher went in on Jonathan Byers. He called him “wet” lol. If Christopher had been a character in fictional Hawkins and given Jonathan that kind of guff on the show, he basically would have been the high school bully! Winona Ryder would have kicked his ass!! We can dream, I guess.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXhCayQXkc&t=2102s

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