Stranger Things: Season One Recap

About this episode

Sarah and Lea discuss their thoughts on Stranger Things season five, El's ending, and summarize two prequel books.

What are our thoughts on season five and the series' finale? El's ending on the show? Listen as Sarah and Lea discuss listeners' questions and thoughts, give their own hot takes, and give a summary on two prequel books centering around Hopper's time in New York and Terri Ives' time with Brenner.

People in this episode

Hosts: Sarah Watson, Lea Nasrallah

Topics covered

• Stranger Things
• season recap
• prequel books
• character analysis
• listener questions

Keywords

• Stranger Things
• season one recap
• El
• Hopper
• Terri Ives
• Brenner
• prequel books

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Stranger Things, Hopper's time in New York, Terri Ives' time with Brenner

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