'Stranger Things' Season 5 Volume 2 Review: An Unsatisfying Second Half — For One Obvious Reason
Dais Johnston
created: Dec. 26, 2025, 1 a.m. | updated: Jan. 5, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
Throughout Season 5 of Stranger Things there’s been a bubbling sense of finality.
Season 5 Volume 2 provides some much-needed answers about the nature of the Upside Down.
NetflixStranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 picks up right after Volume 1 ended, with the group reeling from the emergency of Will’s powers.
Emotional moments are a key part of the Stranger Things formula, but these scenes feel like just checking boxes, even if they technically do evolve characters past where we met them first.
Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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