Liv and Alina Valdez, dressed up as fan favourite buds Steve Harrington and Dustin Henderson, and said they couldn’t have been more pleased with how it all ended.
“It’s been basically 10 years,” Liv told BBC News, wearing Harrington’s Scoops Ahoy ice cream shop uniform outside the theatre.
“The Duffer Brothers did a good job of giving the audience what we needed, maybe not necessarily what we wanted.”
They both applauded the both happy-at-times and perhaps, bittersweet ending.
“It was an emotional roller-coaster,” Alina added, noting Eleven’s up-for-interpretation-ending was perfectly done.
“It was just a lot of emotions,” Diana Espinoza told the BBC, standing in the lobby of the theatre with a new Demogorgon plush.
“I lost control of my tears!”
She donned a lengthy mind-flayer dress to the screening and said she’d attempted in vain to steer clear of various fan theories that have been going viral on social media because she wanted to be “blown away” by the final episode.
Being in a theatre with fellow fans screaming and crying during pivotal scenes was the cherry on top.
“I loved the finale. There was no better way to end this,” she said, calling it both bittersweet, emotional and the “happy ending” that everyone deserved.
Additional reporting by Steven McIntosh.