Stranger Things 5 episode 9 probably should have happened, but not because of anything related to Conformity Gate. The series just needed more time to finish telling the story.

Stranger Things' series finale Season 5, Episode 8, "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up" landed on Netflix on December 31, 2025, but a subsection of fans are simply not convinced this was the series' ...

I figure this was going to happen. After it did not pan out that a predicted, secret ninth episode of Stranger Things would air last Thursday night, a theory so widely believed it crashed the service ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 22: (L-R) Jamie Campbell Bower, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer, Noah Schnapp, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Brett Gelman and Matthew Modine attend Stranger Things: The First ...

The theory gained traction when users noticed that typing “fake ending” into Netflix’s search bar returned Stranger Things as the top result. Fans also pointed out that the show’s social media bios ...

Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Stranger Things has concluded after giving us an incredible eighth episode of Season 5. However, it seems like fans are having a ...

Is there actually a ninth episode of Stranger Things' fifth and final season on the way? The answer is like 99.99-percent no, if only because we're not Netflix to directly debunk the theory floating ...

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