One Stranger Things star thinks the show would be "much better" if the main cast could be killed off: "We’re all too safe"
Feb. 6, 2024Gaten Matarazzo thinks more of the cast should be killed off in Stranger Things
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Stranger Things star Gaten Matarazzo – who plays Dustin on the long-running Netflix series – believes the show should kill off more characters.
“It might sound messed up but we should kill more people,” Matarazzo said at MEGACON Orlando (viaCBR). “This show would be so much better if the stakes were much higher, like at any moment any of these kids can kick it. I feel like we’re all too safe.”
All eyes, then, onStranger Things season 5to see if co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer make good on Matarazzo’s feedback.
The final season is sure to be fraught with peril, and the Netflix series has already proved it has the stomach for a heartbreaking kill withEddie Munsonbiting the dust in the fourth season.
Sadie Sink’s Max, too, could very well be on the way out – or, at the very least, seriously injured – given the events of the season 4 finale which saw her ‘die’ but brought back to life.
Or you could look at it another way: Matarazzo knows what’s coming and thinks Stranger Things season 5 doesn’t go far enough – or, in Max’s case, pulled back on the tragedy.
Whatever happens next, things are sure to be dire for those in Hawkins. Big BadVecnais on a collision course with the beloved cast of characters in the Upside Down.
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Theprevious season endedwith a portent of doom: the skies darken over the town, fragments of the Upside Down fall onto the ground, and flowers start decaying.
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