News Stranger Things Stranger Things Crew Finally Share First Details About Linda Hamilton’s Character There are 215 villains in the Stranger Things universe. Linda Hamilton is one. By Molly Templeton | Published on October 17, 2025 Image: Paramount Pictures Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Paramount Pictures The final season of Stranger Things begins in just about a month, and the promotional cycle has well and truly begun: Interviews with Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers are getting almost as long as some of the series’ episodes, and even Time has a cover story on the series. But the Duffers are revealing very, very little about how it all ends. Most of the stories lean heavily on what it’s been like for the Duffers and their stars—former children now all grown up—to have worked on the series for ten solid years. But here and there, details spring out. Barb’s body, if not Barb herself, makes an appearance in the final season. (The Duffers admitted to Time that they were wrong to initially dismiss audience interest in Barb.) And we finally know a teensy bit more about Dr. Kay, the mysterious character played by Linda Hamilton. Dr. Kay and her terrible hairdo appeared briefly in the trailer Netflix released in July, but that appearance gave us little to go on: Who on this show hasn’t walked down a red-lit corridor, looking tense and carrying a weapon? The Duffers told Time that among the “key inspirations” for this final season are Home Alone’s booby traps—and also Terminator 2. Costume designer Amy Parris told Time, “There’s this sort of mercenary regime, they’re called the Wolf Pack. They’re Dr. Kay’s men who are meant to be finding Eleven.” Presumably, given the T2 reference, they are relentless and difficult to kill. Dr. Kay herself is apparently a government scientist. I’m getting Buffy season four vibes all of a sudden. The official synopsis for season five notes that “the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.” Meanwhile, her evil counterpart Vecna has vanished. Netflix says, “The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.” I just want to know what song will be playing. Stranger Things begins its final season with the four episodes of Volume 1 on November 26t; three more episodes follow in Volume 2 on December 25, and the finale happens on New Year’s Eve. [end-mark] The post <i>Stranger Things</i> Crew Finally Share First Details About Linda Hamilton’s Character appeared first on Reactor.