10 'Stranger Things' Series Finale Plot Holes

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Spoiler alert: This post discusses various details from the Stranger Things Season 5 finale.

Stranger Things came to an end doing exactly what it does best: giving fans a ton of pesky plot holes to debate. The dimension-hopping sci-fi series has always had a few cracks in its logic, which superfans were hoping the highly anticipated finale may explain away at long last. But no — while the last episode did clear a lot of things up, there are a lot of lingering questions... and more than a few story beats that simply don’t make sense.

Not only did the two-hour finale skip over key relationship updates — like, how Dustin and Suzie apparently broke up off-screen — it also neglected to provide a few lore details that audiences have been wondering about for years. Oh, and there were several moments where it felt like the finale was arbitrarily breaking Stranger Things’ previously established in-universe m...