In a rather cheeky bit of internet teasing, an official account affiliated with the flagship Netflix series Stranger Things has posted a blurred image of a whiteboard covered in what is implied to be the entirety of the plot for season 5. This teaser comes in the build-up to what is likely to be another massively successful season for the team behind the project.Stranger Things is a contemporary science fiction series centered on the fictional town of Hawkins in 1980s Indiana and chronicles the many strange and surreal paranormal happenings that plague the otherwise typical town, some inspired by the popular tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons, as well as the effect that these events have on some of the town’s residents. Primarily, the focus is on a group of children who continuously find themselves in the eye of these mystical happenings. The series has been a critical and commercial success, which is to be expected considering that each episode in the latter seasons of Stranger Things cost tens of millions of dollars to produce.The Stranger Things season 5 teaser was released via @strangerwriters on Twitter, an account created for and controlled by the show's writers as a group. The photo shows a large whiteboard divided into a grid that covers the entire face of it. The entire grid is filled with wording in what seems to be a thorough and intricate manner. Considering the nature of the account and previous posts on it, which have included entire pages of Stranger Things scripts detailing emotional moments, the implication is clearly meant to be that this board contains the plot for the next season of the Netflix show. The post also features the caption ‘Grid complete,’ further signaling that the writing for the season is done.
This information would be a massive spoiler for fans if the entire thing weren’t very thoroughly blurred, with the background remaining crystal clear as if to confirm to fans that this is an elaborate hoax. Several users responding to the post can be seen admitting that they fell for it, likely expecting the image to clear up once open in Twitter’s full-screen image preview. These kinds of off-season antics by those involved with the show, such as when the cast played a game of IRL Dungeons and Dragons reminiscent of the characters in the series, go a long way to help build fan anticipation.
Stranger Things has continued to defy expectations, charging on amidst critical and fan acclaim despite even stars on the show like David Harbour initially doubting its chances for renewal. Now approaching its fifth and final season, fans will be glad to see that the team is hard at work and maintaining the well-written quality of the previous seasons, with writing for the final season starting with a tweet of an empty whiteboard early in August. Fans will also likely feel relieved in retrospect that the image wasn’t actually a spoiler for the climax of the much-beloved show.
Stranger Things seasons 1-4 are now available on Netflix.
Source: stranger writers/Twitter