It feels like just yesterday, I was writing furiously about how Eddie Munson’s death in Stranger Things 4 was neither noble nor necessary . Because, of course, Eddie had never been the coward that he (and perhaps the show) believed him to be. And so did not need to be “redeemed” by his death. Instead, Eddie Munson had been heroic every day of his life, brave in creating a place for Othered people like himself to be weird, proud, and free in the face of a society that wished they would cease to exist. It feels like just yesterday because, even though three years have passed since the last season of Stranger Things , I still think about Eddie’s death all of the time. And that makes me perhaps uniquely situated to empathize with Dustin Henderson in Stranger Things 5 . Empathy, it turns

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