Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 2 X Review: Netizens Highly Disappointed By New Episodes Of Millie's Series

Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 X Review: Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 dropped recently on Netflix, perfectly timed for Christmas binges. Following Volume 1's release on November 26 episodes 1-4 and leading to the New Year's Eve finale, the second volume has been highly awaited. Created and directed by the Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross), with additional episodes helmed by showrunners like Shawn Levy, this batch packs episodes 5-7 into feature-length runtimes around 60-90 minutes each, ramping up the 1980s synth-horror with Hawkins overrun by Upside Down vines and military quarantines.

The star-studded cast returns full force: Millie Bobby Brown as powerhouse Eleven, Noah Schnapp's Will Byers awakening psychic ties to Vecna, Sadie Sink's comatose Max Mayfield fighting mind traps, Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), plus Winona Ryder (Joyce), David Harbour (Hopper), Natalia Dyer (Nancy), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), and Jamie Campbell Bower's terrifying Vecna/Henry Creel, with newcomers Linda Hamilton as Dr. Kay and Nell Fisher as kidnapped Holly Wheeler. To note, Stranger Things Season 5 volume 2 dived into chaos post-Volume 1 wherein Vecna kidnapped kids like Holly and trapped Max in his memory-scape, a creeping circular wall engulfs Hawkins, Will clashed psychically via his Upside Down bond from 1983, Eleven and sister Kali united powers, while Hopper's group fought Demogorgons and failed military ops at the lab's core. As Stranger Things Season 5 is here, the fans are buzzing with an opinion.

Stranger Things Season 5 X Review

Taking to micro-blogging site Twitter, a user wrote, "Disappointed is the least I could say #StrangerThings5". Another user wrote, "where did this friendship between will and max come from? the writers just doing anything atp #StrangerThings5". One of the users even tweeted, "Rewatching the show made me appreciate how strong it once was. Unfortunately, Season 5 Vol 2 didn't live up to that standard. Even short episodes felt long because of unnecessary dragging".

Meanwhile, Stranger Things season 5 will have its grand finale on New Years as the makers will be dropping the last episode of the finale season which is said to have a runtime of over 2 hours.