We already knew the star of The Terminator — Sarah Connor, of course… aka Linda Hamilton — would be joining the Stranger Things Cinematic Universe for Season 5. But now, we’re getting a glimpse, albeit a small one, into her character from the Duffer Brothers themselves.
“She’s hyper-intelligent and intimidating,” Matt Duffer told Empire of the character Dr. Kay, a government agent hunting down Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven, in their new Stranger Things Season 5 issue.
And it looks like she’s probably going to be using those smarts to, quite frankly, kick some ass. “She’s a scientist but if she needs to, she can get into a fight and shoot a gun,” Matt added.
That’s all we have to go on at this point when it comes to Hamilton’s character, and we have even less information about the plot of season 5 itself. It’ll be interesting to eventually see all the facets of her character and how she affects the greater story. That said, the Duffer Brothers have opened up a little bit about what fans can expect throughout the season.
The cocreator and showrunner of the series recently opened up to Variety, alongside brother Ross Duffer, about making sure the final season would explain “about what the Upside Down was.” He added: “Every season would be like, ‘Should we talk about it?’ And we’d go, ‘No, let’s wait.’ And then finally, we’re like, ‘Well, we have to now!’”
Another thing fans can expect is a complete story. “It doesn’t feel like we dropped a storyline — it all connects,” Ross told Variety in the recent chat, while Matt noted: “We do every last remaining thing we wanted to do with the Demogorgons and Mind Flayer and Vecna and the Upside Down and Hawkins and these characters. This is a complete story. It’s done.”
Last week, star Finn Wolfhard admitted the fear that Stranger Things might tank its reputation with a dodgy finale was a concern for the show’s cast after seeing Game of Thrones’ final season brutally “torn to shreds.”
Stranger Things season 5 will be released on Netflix in three parts: four episodes on November 26th for the Thanksgiving holiday, another three episodes on Christmas, and the final episode of the series on New Year’s Day.
After all that, will this really be the end of Stranger Things? Of course not. Netflix already has plans for animated series and at least one spinoff.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
