Stranger Things star Cara Buono has shared her honest take on whether the series finale will satisfy viewers.
Cara, who plays Mike and Nancy’s mom Karen Wheeler, and onscreen husband Ted (Joe Chrest).
“With every great show, you can’t satisfy everybody. But I do think that the audiences will be very happy,” she remarked.
“I remember the read-through before we got started [on season 5] and we were all together as a cast. That was a great moment. We embarked on what was going to be a full year, which is really unheard of — especially in television. We all thought, ‘That’s going to be a long time.’ But I felt like it went by really fast,” she noted. “And the last day of the show for me was the very last day of shooting.”
Fast forward to the last day of shooting, “Everybody was there, the families were there and I was in the second-to-last setup for the very end of the show,” said Cara.
“So, it was really a beautiful moment. Because in season 1, I was the first day, first scene and first take. For me, it came full circle at the end. It was just a matter of getting out by trying not to cry and getting to deliver my lines,” she revealed.
Cara is happy Karen got to fight a demogorgon in episode four as she wanted her to “get off the couch and into a fight.” At the end of Vol. 1, Karen and her husband Ted were both injured and recovering in the hospital after a demogorgon attacked their home and took their youngest daughter Holly.
Stranger Things returns on Netflix with Volume 2 on December 25, and the finale will be released on December 31.