Stranger Things Cast Ages Normally While Hawkins Stays Stuck in 1980s Time Loop
KEY POINTS
- â˘Stranger Things premiered on Netflix in 2016 and rapidly became one of its biggest original hits.
- â˘The showâs timeline spans four years in Hawkins, Indiana, but the real-life cast has aged nine years.
- â˘El, Mike, Will, and Lucas have undergone significant character development leading up to the final season.
- â˘Season five, releasing through the end of 2025, promises a concluding battle involving multiple new gates to the Upside Down.
Netflix's sci-fi nostalgia juggernaut Stranger Things started in 2016 with pre-pubescent kids who looked more like they needed naps than supernatural missions. Fast-forward nine finger-wagging years (but only four years for Hawkins timeline), and El, Mike, Lucas, and Will have matured enough to actually worry us with serious Upside Down drama instead of just awkward teenage angst. Featuring Millie Bobby Brown escaping a creepy lab with '011' on her arm, Finn Wolfhard bossing basement missions like a desperate club president, Noah Schnapp serenading demons with The Clash, and Vecna politely opening four new portals because apparently one wasnât enough, the fifth season promises enough demogorgon chaos to cancel every PTA meeting forever.
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Nothing says eternal childhood trauma like having a government number tattoo and fighting a dimension-hopping monster while your classmates just age normally.
Watching the Stranger Things kids grow up is like observing a science experiment where someone forgot it was a grieving monster saga all along.
If opening multi-dimensional gates was a midlife crisis, Eleven's doing god-tier work, but Mike still can't keep a good kumbaya.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 11/27/2025 | Author: Callie Ahlgrim
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