"Online commenters negatively review the episode, making it one of the lowest-rated episodes on the Internet Movie Database, according to Variety. While some of the episode's online critics made homophobic comments about Byers' coming out, other viewers said that the scene - which has been five seasons in the making - seemed awkwardly crammed into the final minutes of the series' second-to-last episode, somewhat out of place in the season's otherwise do-or-die pacing, and excessively sentimental."
""I had this crush on someone, even though I know they're not like me," Byers says while looking at his best friend. Byers then recounts all the things he has in common with his closests friends and adds, "I just don't like girls." His fellow protagonists praise and hug him, and the scene ends."
Matt and Ross Duffer defended Will Byers' coming-out scene in Season 5 Episode 7 of Stranger Things after online viewers criticized it for feeling rushed and awkwardly written. A few minutes before the penultimate episode's end, Will (Noah Schnapp) tells his friends he needed to come out so Vecna cannot use his secret, saying he had a crush and "I just don't like girls." Online reactions included homophobic attacks and complaints that the scene was crammed into the episode's final minutes, lacked an explicit "I'm gay" line, and that unanimous acceptance felt historically unrealistic for the show's 1980s setting.
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