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Happy New Year, fam! And see you later to the heroic Hawkins kids.
After much anticipation – and following nine years and a final season over three different holidays – Netflix's "Stranger Things" is streaming its concluding episode. Check that out in the last gasp of your holiday break, and/or tick off a few more items from our mega holiday streaming movie guide. And for movie theater devotees, "Marty Supreme" is the coolest thing at the cinema, with some fun folks in the film to support Timothée Chalamet's ping-pong high jinks.
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The end is here! The young heroes of Hawkins, Indiana, hatched an ambitious plan to keep the evil Vecna from crashing another world into ours, leading to one blockbuster-y climactic battle in the "Stranger Things" finale (streaming now on Netflix). My bud Patrick Ryan talked with star Noah Schnapp about the movie-length final episode and Schnapp thought it was a "perfect" ending. It's "a story of what the whole show was," the actor says. "It's like a proper goodbye to our childhoods."
