What is up, Hellfire Club, I mean, Slackers?

This week is all about Thanksgiving and Stranger Things 5. I’m giving thanks (even though some days it’s been tough to find my gratitude) and laying out my final predictions for the season. More specifically, who’s who in the ST dead pool. The Duffer Brothers keep saying they channeled the spirit of series finales that actually left us satisfied. And Return of the King. Weird, right?

I believe them, but with stakes this high, not everyone’s walking out of Hawkins alive. My quick, gut-level, not-exactly-bold picks:

• Robin? Safe.
• Dustin? Safe.
• Steve? Eleven? I’m not so sure.
• And what about Murray!?

This show is set right in the years I was in middle school, so it’s always felt lived-in for me and the Mrs. Watching our own kids get just as hooked as we were on Nightmare on Elm Street or any John Hughes movie—that’s the real magic. Truly cross-generational.

There are only a handful of shows that have ever really made me feel excited and nervous for the fate of fictional characters. Great art can do that to ya.

Happy Thanksgiving, Slackers. Please, pass the pumpkin pie (the only pie that matters).