The penultimate episode of Stranger Things, featuring Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) coming out as gay to his friends, has become the lowest-rated episode in the series’ history. As the show reaches its end, episode seven of the fifth season, entitled “The Bridge”, saw a number of key plots begin to tie up. Max (Sadie Sink) returned to the real world, and the clan realised that Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) is planning to merge alternate dimension The Abyss with the human world. Arguably the biggest moment of the episode came when Will Byers nervously told his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) and then his friends – including his best pal and crush Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) – that he is gay, in order to fight Vecna from using his insecurities against him. Listing all of the similarities he shares with his friends, including dungeons and dragons, bike races and a shared love of Steve Martin, Will then tearfully added: “…I just don’t like girls.” “I had this crush on someone, even though I know they’re not like me,” he continued, looking straight at Mike, setting the hearts of ‘Byler’ shippers alight. The five-minute scene ended with Joyce and his friends promising that they will love and support him, regardless of his sexuality. It’s a fairly unlikely conclusion to Will’s big secret, given that the show is set in the ‘80s, but moving nonetheless. Plus, this is Stranger Things; it’s not exactly grounded in reality. #noahschnapp #strangerthings #comingout #willbyers #lgbtqia
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@pinknews The penultimate episode of Stranger Things, featuring Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) coming out as gay to his friends, has become the lowest-rated episode in the series’ history. As the show reaches its end, episode seven of the fifth season, entitled “The Bridge”, saw a number of key plots begin to tie up. Max (Sadie Sink) returned to the real world, and the clan realised that Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) is planning to merge alternate dimension The Abyss with the human world. Arguably the biggest moment of the episode came when Will Byers nervously told his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) and then his friends – including his best pal and crush Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) – that he is gay, in order to fight Vecna from using his insecurities against him. Listing all of the similarities he shares with his friends, including dungeons and dragons, bike races and a shared love of Steve Martin, Will then tearfully added: “…I just don’t like girls.” “I had this crush on someone, even though I know they’re not like me,” he continued, looking straight at Mike, setting the hearts of ‘Byler’ shippers alight. The five-minute scene ended with Joyce and his friends promising that they will love and support him, regardless of his sexuality. It’s a fairly unlikely conclusion to Will’s big secret, given that the show is set in the ‘80s, but moving nonetheless. Plus, this is Stranger Things; it’s not exactly grounded in reality. #noahschnapp #strangerthings #comingout #willbyers #lgbtqia