This story contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 5, volume 1.

"I was looking for answers in somebody else, but I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so goddamn scared."

That’s Maya Hawke’s Robin talking, but the phrase is repeating in the head of Will Byers in the climax of episode four of Stranger Things . Curiously, it runs counter to what so much of this show has been about for five seasons. The recurring themes throughout are friendship, teamwork and family, both those that are found and those you are born with. And yet, what good are you as a part of any of those groups if you don’t stand on your own two feet?

We see Noah Schnapp do a lot more than that in the final moments of this first batch of episodes , saving his beloved friends from certain death a

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