While Max's destiny is inactive up successful the air, Matt and Ross Duffer told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) is dormant "for existent this time." As they said, "He's toast."

Same goes for Eddie (Joseph Quinn), who sacrificed himself to the Demobats to bargain clip for the remainder of the kids fighting. Joseph told E! News he's inactive hoping to reappear successful the show, saying, "I'd beryllium precise up for it. But yeah, let's see."

As for Max (Sadie Sink), the brothers aren't giving up connected her conscionable yet. "She's encephalon dead, but yeah, she's alive," they said. "She's unsighted and each of her bones are broken." 

Even Natalia Dyer is confused astir who Nancy belongs with. On 1 hand, she thinks Nancy and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) are a bully match, but she besides sees that Steve (Joe Keery) has grown up. And there's a portion of her that thinks Nancy shouldn't beryllium with either 1 of them. "It's truly tough," she told Variety. "I don't know. It feels similar she's been successful a narration for a portion truthful possibly she needs immoderate aforesaid find time."

She continued, "Whatever happens, I would anticipation that she does it with integrity. I personally had immoderate crunchy feelings astir however the full Jonathan happening started benignant of down Steve's back. I can't judge she did that. I mean, I can."

In the play finale, Will (Noah Schnapp) confirmed helium and Vecna are inactive connected aft they were linked to each different successful play two. When asked if fans volition spot the 2 characters interact in play five, Jamie Campbell Bower told E! News, "We each cognize by present that Vecna and Will person history. So it would beryllium a joyousness to to get backmost successful there, arsenic I'll mildly enactment it."

In fact, Jamie remained secretive passim the entire interview, but promised the Duffers person got it each thought out. "My lips are sealed," helium said. "You'll person to hold and see. I deliberation Matt and Ross got thing beauteous cooking and they'll fto america cognize successful bully time."

While Joyce (Winona Ryder), Will (Noah Schnapp), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) initially sought to commencement anew successful California, it seems the Byers household is missing Hawkins and their hometown friends. So, they're leaving their California location and returning to Indiana, alongside Hopper and Eleven, successful play five.

"It's mostly successful Hawkins, and there's a batch evidently successful the Upside Down," Matt Duffer told Collider astir their play 5 plans. "But this is astir everyone yet coming back. Coming backmost together, coming backmost to Hawkins.

The Duffer Brothers person mostly planned retired play five, the last installment, but there's nary knowing erstwhile filming volition begin. 

"This past play took 2 years successful total, truthful who knows however agelong play 5 volition take," Sadie Sink told Deadline. "The Duffers decidedly cognize the fans volition beryllium eagerly awaiting a 5th season, but I don't deliberation they're gonna unreserved it. They wanna marque the champion last play that they could perchance make."

They whitethorn not unreserved the process, but it seems they're cutting down connected the magnitude of scenes successful the last season. The Duffer Brothers promised the upcoming episodes volition beryllium somewhat shorter, though they expect the finale is going to beryllium different feature-length episode. 

"The lone crushed we don't expect to beryllium arsenic agelong is, this season, if you look astatine it, it's astir a two-hour ramp up earlier our kids truly get drawn into a supernatural mystery," Matt Duffer told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. "You get to cognize them, you get to spot them successful their lives, they're struggling with adapting to precocious schoolhouse and truthful forth, Steve's trying to find a date, each of that. None of that is evidently going to beryllium occurring [in play 5]."