One of the creators of Stranger Things has confirmed that Max Mayfield will return, but there’s a catch to it.
Netflix‘s break-out hit seriesStranger Thingsis gearing up for its final run as filming fortheir fifth and final season is underway.
Stranger Things has a colorful cast of characters,most of which will be returning for Season 5, including fan favorite Max Mayfield. However, there’s a big catch to her return to the small screen.
Max is back in Stranger Things, but not in the way fans want
When we last saw Max, she was suffering the physical and psychological consequences of her battle with Vecna, the superpowered evil entity that is acting as the final boss of the series.
In the final moments of Season 4, fans were relieved to see that Max was still alive but was laid up in the hospital in a coma.
Ross Duffer, one of the co-creators of the series, recently posted a photo of Sadie Sink, who plays Max, toInstagram where she can be seen awake and smiling in a hospital bed, which led fans to believe Max’s return in the beginning of Season 5 will see her being awake from her coma.
However, Duffer did crush any hopes of her speedy recovery with the clarifying caption, “FYI this is a pic of Sadie, not Max. Max is in a coma.”
So, unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like fans will be able to reunite with the sassy Max they know and love until further into Season 5… if it happens at all.
One of the biggest speculations around the final season of Stranger Things is thatsome of the main cast won’t make it out of the final battle in Hawkins, so there is a chance that Max could never wake from her coma and become one of Season 5’s biggest casualties.
Kayla Harrington was a TV & Movies Writer on Dexerto’s US team, specializing in The Boys, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, Marvel and Star Wars. She also has bylines at Mashable, BuzzFeed, and The Mary Sue.
