{"id":393869,"date":"2026-01-07T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:33:10","slug":"sadie-sink-says-eleven-is-dead-in-stranger-things-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393869\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadie Sink Says Eleven Is Dead in ‘Stranger Things’ Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSadie Sink<\/a> appeared on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d several days after the \u201cStranger Things<\/a>\u201d finale dropped and shared with host Jimmy Fallon her belief that the Netflix show ended with Millie Bobby Brown\u2019s Eleven dead and gone. The show left Eleven\u2019s fate purposefully ambiguous.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat do I think? I think she\u2019s dead,\u201d Sink said. \u201cIs that a hot take or something? Mike\u2019s story is just one last story, and then they say goodbye to childhood. That\u2019s one final tale, and that\u2019s it. It\u2019s just a coping thing. It\u2019s stronger [that way], right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring one of the finale\u2019s most climactic moments, Eleven sacrifices herself as the Upside Down is being destroyed in order to thwart the military\u2019s continued efforts to weaponize her by using her blood to create new super-powered infants (and thus risk giving rise to a new Henry Creel\/Vecna). However, Finn Wolfhard\u2019s Mike has a different take on what happened. In the final moments of the finale, Mike tells his friends a story in which Eleven survived as footage plays of the character seeking refuge in a remote part of the world.<\/p>\n

\n\tGaten Matarazzo, who starred on \u201cStranger Things\u201d as Dustin, told Va<\/a>riety that he has his own interpretation of Eleven\u2019s fate that he does not intend to share publicly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to keep that private,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if others will [say], but I think that whatever works for you and makes the show wrap up better for you is correct. You have the right to debate it, but whatever you want it to be for you is great. I think they teeter that line very well, because I\u2019ve already noticed a kind of 50\/50 split amongst fans about whether they believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Matarazzo did have this to say about Eleven\u2019s ending: \u201cWhat\u2019s so tragic about the end of Eleven\u2019s story is normalcy would never be guaranteed for the people that she loves if she was there. She didn\u2019t see it as fair, and I think it was a beautiful choice to end her story the way that they did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStranger Things\u201d co-creator previously told Variety<\/a> there was no version of the show\u2019s ending where\u00a0\u201cEleven\u00a0was never going to be there\u201d with her friends at the end.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was very early on in the writing process of this season that we figured out exactly how to tell that story and landed on the \u2018I believe\u2019 moment,’\u201d referring to one of the show\u2019s final moments where the main characters choose to believe Mike\u2019s story about Eleven\u2019s survival. \u201cOnce we landed on \u2018I believe,\u2019 then that sort of cracked it wide open. That was in those first few weeks of the writers\u2019 room, because we started at the end, at that basement scene, and wanted to make sure that we got it to a place where we felt was the right ending for the show. And then we built the season to that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Sink\u2019s full interview on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d in the video below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadie Sink appeared on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d several days after the \u201cStranger Things\u201d finale dropped and shared with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,112104,41882],"class_list":["post-393869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-sadie-sink","tag-stranger-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}