"It had become a pop-culture juggernaut of unspeakable scale, adding all the more weight to its looming fifth and final season. Hawkins, Indiana, the setting of the story, does not actually exist, but the people who have spent the past decade bringing it to life onscreen formed something akin to their own tight-knit small town. Their world, in a sense, was ending tooand they were the ones responsible for making sure it went out with appropriate bangs, whimpers, and all-around spectacle."
"Apart from scores of actors and camera operators, there are countless behind-the-scenes workers like builders, painters, electricians, and greenskeepers in a holding pattern. Beyond that, designers make clothes and techies keep the lights on. There are a security team and medics, cooks who keep everyone fed. Teachers handle school for the kids, drivers get people where they need to be, and hairstylists, makeup artists, and animal wranglers ply their trades."
An impending finale for the Netflix series Stranger Things created urgent production activity as the show approached its fifth and final season. The series, set in a fictional 1980s Midwestern town, grew into a cultural juggernaut, increasing pressure on a large, Atlanta-centered crew that had become a tight-knit community. Hundreds of behind-the-scenes workers — builders, painters, electricians, greenskeepers, designers, tech staff, security, medics, cooks, teachers, drivers, hairstylists, makeup artists, and animal wranglers — awaited the creators' decisions while daily logistics continued. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer knew the final scene early but required extended time to resolve finer narrative details.
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