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The first batch of episodes in Stranger Things' final season are out on Wednesday. Above: Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, and Noah Schnapp as Will Byers. Netflix hide caption

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'Stranger Things' is back. Does everything old still feel new?

The first episodes of the show's fifth and final season are out on Wednesday night. Critic Eric Deggans says the Duffer Brothers keep the plot moving along — even though, so far, many of the storylines feel familiar.

One of the two national Thanksgiving turkeys, Waddle and Gobble, which were presented to journalists in the Willard Room of the Willard InterContinental on November 24, 2025 in Washington, DC., for the 78th annual Turkey Pardoning at the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

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How the turkey trotted its way onto our Thanksgiving tables — and into our lexicon

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The first batch of episodes in Stranger Things' final season are out on Wednesday. Above: Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, and Noah Schnapp as Will Byers. Netflix hide caption

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'Stranger Things' is back. Does everything old still feel new?

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Jolena Rothweil was the recipient of an act of kindness, which she has since paid forward. Jolena Rothweil hide caption

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My Unsung Hero

She couldn't pay it back — so she paid it forward

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She couldn't pay it back — so she paid it forward

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