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Stranger Things 5 BTS Video: Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin Check In

Stranger Things 5 stars Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas) and Sadie Sink (Max) checked in via video from the set of the final season.

Earlier today, we got a chance to see how things went during the seventh and eighth weeks of filming on the fifth & final season of Ross Duffer & Matt Duffer's Stranger Things 5. As we said at the time, the headline-grabber was that we got a look at Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas) and Sadie Sink (Max) together – with that hand-holding second image proving to be a real kick to "the feels."

Shortly after, the duo relief a brief video to let fans know that they were back to work – McLaughlin had already returned, but this was Sink's first day of filming. Here's a look:

Here's a look back at Ross Duffer's Instagram post from earlier, sharing some interesting behind-the-scenes looks at how the seventh & eighth weeks of filming on the fifth and final season went:

Stranger Things 5 "Like Season One on Steroids"

During an interview with The Guardian, Ross & Matt discuss the pressures of ending the series in a way that works creatively and satisfies the audience's expectations and how this final run with these characters will feel "like season one on steroids."

"The nine hours that precede the ending can be amazing. But if you stumble at that one-yard line, people will never forgive you for that. And they'll forget the previous nine hours of awesomeness! So it's amazing what they will forgive if you score a touchdown at the end," Matt Duffer explained when discussing their feelings on how series finales are viewed. "Endings of shows are like opening a restaurant in terms of the success-failure rate – there's an 80% failure rate, I'd say. But I think one very particular way to fail is to attempt to appease everybody."

Matt continued, "We have a huge variety of fans that span a huge age range, and I'm sure they have all their own ideas of how they want the show to end. But we're not consulting social media on this. Then you just hope and pray that it resonates. But it was funny: once we got there, it just felt right, and we're going to go for it!"

As the duo had stated previously, the universe will live on after Stranger Things 5 – but the characters that viewers have grown to love & connect with will see their stories end with the fifth season. With that much on the line, the Duffer Brothers aren't going out quietly. "This season – it's like season one on steroids. It's the biggest it's ever been in terms of scale, but it has been really fun, because everyone's back together in Hawkins: the boys and Eleven interacting more in line with how it was in season one. And, yes, there may be spin-offs, but the story of Eleven and Dustin and Lucas and Hopper, their stories are done here. That's it," Matt shared – before adding, "Outside of the play. So if you want to see more of some of them, go see the play."

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