Is Eleven Dead? Duffer Brothers Answer
The Hollywood Reporter••general
Key Points:
- The Stranger Things series finale concludes with Eleven sacrificing herself to save her friends and the world, leaving her fate ambiguous but hopeful, as the group graduates and passes on their childhood memories symbolized by Dungeons & Dragons to a new generation.
- Creators Matt and Ross Duffer revealed that the final scene, featuring the last D&D game and the symbolic closing of the basement door, was always planned as a farewell to childhood and the end of the original group's story.
- The finale was emotionally intense for the cast and crew, with the last shot showing the group putting away their D&D books representing a heartfelt goodbye to the series, a moment suggested by actor Noah Schnapp.
- The Duffers emphasized the complexity of Eleven's sacrifice, balancing inevit
