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Actress Sadie Sink, who plays Max Mayfield on Stranger Things, recently interpreted the series’ final season. The fifth season concluded with a vague ending for Millie Bobby Brown’s character Eleven.
The show takes place in Indiana in the 80s, where a young group of friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. In their explorations, the children are faced with unexpected mysteries.
Sadie thinks Eleven died in the Stranger Things finale
The Stranger Things finale ended with Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, seemingly in denial about Eleven’s demise. He shared a different scenario for Millie’s character, who everyone believed died to destroy the Upside Down.
Sadie, who played Max on the last four of the show’s five seasons, says Mike’s alternate ending for Eleven is a coping mechanism. “I think she’s dead,” she said on the January 5 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “I think Mike’s story is just one last story and then they say goodbye to childhood. But that’s just one final tale and that’s it.”
Even though Max and her group of friends refuse to believe Eleven is dead, Sadie approves of the show’s finale. “I think it’s stronger,” she added. “That’s my interpretation.”
Only Millie and the show’s co-creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, know what really happened to Eleven. They refuse to reveal the truth.
“We were just talking to Millie about it,” Matt explained on the January 4 episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think it takes away the power of the ending if you tell people what you were thinking as you were writing it. We want the audience to be in the shoes that Mike and the whole gang are in, which is, it’s up to you to choose whether to believe or not. I mean, there’s evidence that could point in both directions. So, that’s the intent of the scene.”
In the end, the team couldn’t devise a way to keep Eleven alive. She symbolized the show’s “fantastical elements” and the American military was intent on capturing her for experimentation.
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