{"id":153290,"date":"2025-12-02T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153290"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:12:27","slug":"did-stranger-things-take-inspiration-from-black-mirror-and-its-alternative-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/did-stranger-things-take-inspiration-from-black-mirror-and-its-alternative-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Stranger Things take inspiration from Black Mirror and its alternative endings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The viral claim around the Internet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stranger Things<\/strong> is at the peak of its hype with its season finale, and things leveled up thanks to a recent X post from<strong> DiscussingFish<\/strong>. The account claimed that <strong>the Duffer Brothers filmed three different endings for the Stranger Things series finale<\/strong> and that Netflix would randomize which ending each household sees, just like Charlie Brooker\u2019s interactive<strong> Black Mirror film Bandersnatch<\/strong> from 2018. It even teased that one ending supposedly confirms a long-running fan theory. However, this is absolutely not true, as DiscussingFish is known for satire and fabrications, and Stranger Things Season 5 will not have randomized endings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFish\/status\/1995497948453716410?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Duffer Brothers say they shot 3 endings to the &#39;STRANGER THINGS&#39; series finale, and the version you watch will be randomized from household-to-household.<\/p>\n<p>Ending #2 reportedly &quot;Canonizes a long-time internet fan theory.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tO9DpRXBYA\">https:\/\/t.co\/tO9DpRXBYA<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dSF6xepflY\">pic.twitter.com\/dSF6xepflY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DiscussingFish (@DiscussingFish) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiscussingFish\/status\/1995497948453716410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>What the Duffers actually said about the ending<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Duffer Brothers have opened up about shaping the finale in a much more grounded way. They shared in a recent interview with <strong>The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong> that although the story evolved season by season, they had known the final scene since starting season two. They never planned multiple seasons in advance but instead created each one as its own strong, standalone chapter. As the world waits for the finale, the brothers admitted they feel both excited and nervous to finally show fans the ending they have been building toward for years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cAs we started out season two \u2014 we\u2019ve known for a really long time what the final scene of the show was going to be, which is nice because that gave us a north star,\u201d Matt Ross expressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SThingsMeme\/status\/1984332649499066646?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Duffer Brothers say they knew the ending of Stranger Things for years.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We always knew what the last 40 minutes were going to be. Obviously, it\u2019s stressful trying to figure out how you want to end the show. Luckily, it was about six or seven years ago that we knew at least what\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fqwSFKjvPQ\">pic.twitter.com\/fqwSFKjvPQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stranger Things Memes (@SThingsMeme) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SThingsMeme\/status\/1984332649499066646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kali\u2019s return and why it matters for eleven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Season 5 also brings back <strong>Kali<\/strong>, first seen in the controversial season 2, and her return is officially meaningful this time. In season 5, episode 4, Eleven finds Kali trapped in a machine inside the Upside Down, setting up her bigger role for the next part of the show. The Duffers told The Hollywood Reporter that Kali will strongly influence Eleven\u2019s journey and was always meant to come back in a way that truly impacts the story. Meanwhile, the next three episodes premiere on December 25, and the grand finale lands on Netflix on December 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The viral claim around the Internet Stranger Things is at the peak of its hype with its season finale, and things leveled up thanks to a recent X post from DiscussingFish. The account claimed that the Duffer Brothers filmed three different endings for the Stranger Things series finale and that Netflix would randomize which ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1441],"tags":[1853],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-series","9":"tag-stranger-things"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153290"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=153290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}