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The Stranger Things season 5 finale has proved controversial – and even one of the show's own actors has given the episode a fairly lukewarm rating on Letterboxd.
Raphael Luce, who played a younger version of Henry Creel, i.e. the kid who would grow up to become Vecna, gave the season 5 finale three-and-a-half stars (and a heart) on Letterboxd. "The end," he wrote by way of a review.
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