- Finn Wolfhard says he thinks it would be "ridiculous" if "Stranger Things" ran longer than five seasons.
- Wolfhard plays Mike Wheeler on the show, a massive hit that premiered on Netflix in 2016.
Finn Wolfhard said that while he isn't ready for "Stranger Things" to be over, he doesn't think the show should run for any longer than five seasons.
Speaking with Uproxx about his new film "When You Finish Saving The World," Wolfhard said that he's looking forward to being able to help the Netflix series end on a high note. Still, he said that the show will have run for long enough by its conclusion.
"If 'Stranger Things' went on any longer than five, I would say it would be ridiculous," Wolfhard told Uproxx. "I think the Duffer brothers figured out, I would imagine, a perfect ending in five. We didn't even know if we'd do two. So, we're happy that people still are around and want to watch it."
Wolfhard made his debut as Mike Wheeler in the first season of "Stranger Things" in 2016, and has starred in the show since. Ahead of season four, which was released in two parts on Netflix during the summer of 2022, Netflix announced that the fifth season would be its last.
Details about the fifth season have been sparse, although showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer, aka the Duffer Brothers, told Variety that the gap between seasons four and five likely won't be as long as the one between seasons three and four, which was exacerbated due to the pandemic. Eventually, Netflix announced, the Duffers will produce a "Stranger Things" spinoff for the streaming service — and Wolfhard himself accidentally stumbled upon its premise.
Wolfhard said that he hopes that the fifth season will return to some of the show's season one dynamics while delivering a "satisfying" ending to each character's arc for fans. Ultimately, the actor's looking forward to helping "finish it off" so that he can finally know what happens.
"I'm definitely sad about it, but also, I know that it's the next kind of chapter of everyone's life that needs to happen," he told Uproxx.