[This story contains spoilers from Stranger Things season five, Volume 1.]

Cara Buono has seen Karen Wheeler go through a lot over the course of Stranger Things . She unwittingly harbored a fugitive science experiment in her basement. She flirted with a hot, teenage lifeguard. She sported more stellar 1980s hairstyles than there are seasons of the Netflix mega-hit series.

But, prior to the first drop of episodes from the fifth and final season, she never had a clue what was really going on with her children or in her monster-infested town. That changed with Stranger Things 5 episode two, “The Vanishing of…,” during which she gets into a gruesome altercation with a Demogorgon — those nasty little pieces of work with flower-shaped heads full of teeth.

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