Netflix has ruined another once-great TV show with an absolutely abysmal batch of new Stranger Things 5 episodes.

The second volume of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 sets the stage for an explosive finale where the residents of Hawkins will finally go face-to-face with Vecna. However, before that, the three episodes provide some crucial answers about what has actually been happening in Hawkins all these years.

After four-and-a-half seasons of questions prompted by “Stranger Things,” in Volume 2 of the show’s fifth and final season, creators Matt and Ross Duffer offered answers aplenty, while also setting up the potentially tragic stakes of the series finale.

Depending on where you stand nine years into Stranger Things’s run, his big scene might’ve moved you to tears — or fallen entirely flat.

The final battle begins December 31—but first, we have praise and a few nitpicks to pass along to Netflix and the Duffer Brothers.

It's certainly satisfying to get the answers about the Upside Down that have evaded audiences for so long, but, in some ways, all of these explanations come with a new set of questions.

Turns out Dr. Brenner’s dad was part of the experiment, hence his obsession with Dimension X, Henry's powers, and the Upside Down. Meanwhile, the technology in the briefcase transported Henry to Dimension X and he, per Deadline, "returned with a unique blood type, a different personality and new powers."

Episode 5 of Stranger Things season 5 references events from the prequel stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow, which most audiences have not seen.

Stranger Things Season 5 is being streamed on Netflix over the holidays – but as always things are not quite that simple

Stranger Things season 5 part 2 was certainly putting the science in science fiction. The latest batch of episodes does a lot of heavy lifting in explaining the