OMG!😱 Will Vecna, the dude who looks like Voldemort after a bad tanning session, get a REDEMPTION ARC in the final season of Stranger Things?! Like, are we supposed to feel bad for the dude who turns people into human pretzels?!
During a recent interview with TV Guide (as if anyone still watches TV 🙄), Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown, were asked about which villains from their hit Netflix series they consider “misunderstood.” Schnapp, bless his heart 😇, might have accidentally spilled the tea 🍵 about the final season with his super cryptic answer.
“Low-key Vecna, because like…” Schnapp starts, probably about to reveal Vecna’s tragic backstory of how he couldn’t find matching socks as a kid or something equally sob-worthy.
But hold up! ✋ Brown, ever the professional (or maybe she’s just terrified of Netflix snipers 🎯), cuts him off faster than you can say “Demogorgon.” “Really? No, shut up. That’s it, now be quiet,” she says, laughing nervously. Translation: “Don’t you dare ruin my career, kid!” 🤣
When the interviewer tries to get Brown to admit that Vecna might be a misunderstood artist at heart, she dodges the question like Neo dodging bullets. “Let’s just not even [go there], because today has been a day and we want to do so much for you, but we’re not smart enough to dance around these questions,” she says. Basically, she’s saying, “I’m too pretty to do mental gymnastics. NEXT!” 💅
Fans online are losing their minds over Schnapp’s almost-answer. Could this mean that Vecna will become a hero? Maybe he’ll open a bakery and name it “Vecna’s Very Villainous Vanilla Vixens”? Does Vecna, AKA Henry Creel, AKA One (because originality is overrated 🙄), have some super-duper tragic backstory where he was bullied for having no nose? (Oh wait, that’s Voldemort again 😜).
To be fair, the Broadway stage show Stranger Things: The First Shadow dives deep into Henry’s childhood trauma, but who actually cares about a stage show when we have Netflix and chill?! 😴
Still, it seems highly unlikely that Vecna could get a redemption arc after all the eyeball-sucking and soul-trapping he did last season. I mean, come on! Unless he promises to give everyone free Netflix for life, I’m not buying it! 🙅♀️
Fans have been theorizing that Vecna will use Will, the guy who can’t catch a break, against Eleven in the upcoming season. And now, it looks like that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Great. More Will angst. 🙄
Meanwhile, a recent clip of the season’s opening scene reveals what happened to Will when he first went missing. Spoiler alert: it probably involves Vecna giving him a wedgie and stealing his lunch money. 😈
Season 5 takes place in the fall of 1987. Because the 80s weren’t scary enough already! 👻 Netflix’s official synopsis reads:
Hawkins is scarred, our heroes are united, and Vecna has vanished. Because apparently, even interdimensional beings need a vacation sometimes. 🌴 The government is hunting Eleven (again), and Will’s disappearance anniversary is approaching (again). The final battle is looming (again). It’s like they’re just repeating the same plot points over and over! ♻️
Stranger Things Season 5 will be released in three parts: November 26, Christmas (because nothing says “festive” like fighting monsters), and New Year’s Eve (so you can ring in the new year with existential dread). 🎉
Episodes will be available to stream at 5PM PT/8PM ET. Mark your calendars, set your alarms, and prepare to binge-watch until your eyes bleed! 👁️👁️
Finn McFrame, celebrated satirical mastermind and self-proclaimed “Emperor of Irony,” started his illustrious career as a cinematographer, where his expertise in capturing every single frame of a squirrel stealing a baguette earned him accolades at obscure film festivals.
Born in the glamorous town of Boring, Oregon, Finn grew up with dreams of being a Hollywood director until he realized that satire, not cinema, was his true calling—or at least the one that let him sleep until noon.
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