Why removing the villain might have led to a scarier, more mysterious, and emotionally stronger series overall.

Jamie Campbell Bower as the villain Vecna in "Stranger Things." He’s the strangest thing. Netflix’s sci-fi hit “Stranger Things,” now streaming all five seasons, has Henry, aka Vecna (Jamie Campbell ...

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For a while, there has been some curiosity about whether or not Vecna/Henry is the true villain of Stranger Things. After all, it seemed like there was another, greater entity of power in the world, ...

A forecast of how Stranger Things ends plots nine years in the making. The final Stranger Things episode debuts December 31 on Netflix and in theaters. Predictions include a Byers boy dying and Eleven ...

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By the time Volume Two premiered on Christmas, many had become apprehensive about how a two-hour finale on Dec. 31 would tie ...

Where it went wrong, however, comes largely from the mystique and reverence for its writers, who are perhaps put on too high a pedestal. The Duffer brothers, Ross and Matt Duffer, wrote and created ...

He’s the strangest thing. Netflix’s sci-fi hit “Stranger Things,” now streaming all five seasons, has Henry, aka Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), as its big baddie. Viewers joked that Vecna got a trendy ...