Stranger Things Season 5 arrived with the weight of nearly a decade of storytelling and its finale delivered answers to one of the series’ biggest lingering mysteries: the fate of the Upside Down.

Are you still confused about what the Upside Down is after the latest Stranger Things episodes? Was Erica and Mr Clark yelling “wormhole” a hundred times not enough of an explanation for you? Fear not ...

Well, after five seasons over these past nine years, we have finally been told what the Upside Down actually is. It’s obviously been a core part of Stranger Things since the show began but let’s be ...

Stranger Things Season 1 explained that the Upside Down is simply an alternate dimension that exists alongside the real world. Hearing about the alternate-dimension thing, we believed it was a similar ...

Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, and Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers in "Stranger Things" Season 5 (Photo Credit: Netflix) Not even Shawn Levy, an executive producer who’s been ...

Stranger Things season 5 Volume 2 turns the Upside Down from a spooky “mirror world” into something with rules, wiring, and a single point of failure. In these episodes, the Hawkins gang finally ...

Stranger Things has been about the Upside Down since the very beginning. It’s the scary, twisted version of our world that spawned all the evil that has driven the action for five seasons. Or so we ...

This post contains major spoilers for Stranger Things 5, Volume 2, and the truth about the Upside Down. If you don’t want to be cursed (with knowledge!), stop now. Instead, head to our spoiler-free ...

For nine years, fans have been asking the same question: What exactly is the Upside Down? We know it’s a dark parallel dimension. We know it mirrors Hawkins. We know it’s filled with Demogorgons, the ...

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A season-by-season deep dive into Stranger Things’ world, character arcs, and stakes — culminating in theory and hopes for Season 5. Promo poster for Stranger Things 5. The show opens in the small ...