Stranger Things 4x9 The Piggyback - Season 4 FINALE - Group Reaction 

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That metal sequence was the most exhilarating thing I've witnessed in a long time. May Eddie rest in peace; he'll forever be a hero.

The actor who plays Lucas improvised when he screamed for Erica to help. It was not in the script. That really shows you where Caleb actually went in that scene. Brilliant

Steve: The nanny we all deserve. Eddie: The big brother we all deserve.

The part that made me cry was the uncle finding out about Eddie.

Fun fact for anyone that didn't know: The actor that played as Eddy ACTUALLY played the guitar in that scene. Makes it more EPIC!

The thing with Eddie: He didn't knew, that it wouldn't help... He had no information at all and still choose to stay, in case it might help.

Lucas and Dustin both nailed the emotion delivery!!!

Show timeline-wise: I give Eddie props for learning Master of Puppets released a couple of weeks before season 4 takes place.

Love how they have mixed the show's opening them with the iconic songs like Running up that hill and Separate Ways. Literally hyped up the fight.

“I didn’t run this time right?” Got me. Fucking legend

Just sobbing. Eddie. And then Lucas. And then Dustin's conversation with Eddie's uncle. My eyes are so puffy now.

I might be in the minority here, but I actually really liked the restraint they had in Will’s coming out story. Even if he didn’t outright say it, you know what he’s going through. And for this time period and his age, it makes sense why these feelings would scare him, which is why his scene with Jonathan was so great.

All I have to say is the acting in this show is absolutely phenomenal. I've cried more during this show than any other show it's crazy. These characters are just so special to me so it really hit me hard. Can't wait for the very last season.

That scene of Hawkins breaking is incredible. The ticking and chiming of the clock, almost mockingly, being all frantic and disjointed really sells the “oh shit, we *lost*” feeing

Eddie played the most metal show there has ever been, and then stood like a viking to pull the bats away from the portal. I need a spinoff of just him and chrissy being happy somewhere. But if you're going to send him off, that was the most badass thing anyone has ever done on this show. (who wasn't eleven.)

They knew and planned that music for the final episode too. There’s an Kate Bush interview that she says she were approached by the Duffers where they explained to her where her music was going to play and she said they explained it was two key moments: in episode 4 and the final episode.

RIP Eddie. Eddie went out like a badass.

Gotta be the most I've ever cried in one episode of a show. The emotional rollercoasters throughout the WHOLE episode is insane. The upgrade in quality of this show this season is so ridiculously noticeable. Love it. Season 4 definitely is the best season.

Eddie deserved better. Town still blaming him, no group reaction to his death, he deserved better. METALLICA ROCK! 🎸

The way they ended the season was perfect. It set up the final (?) season perfectly.

I was watching 4x8 reaction and literally thought, "well can't wait for the next one!" *and here it is 16 minutes later*

When Eleven is in max's memory in memory , That memory wasn't clearly explained . So maybe that could be a good plot to retrieve Max .

I'm just now realizing that the gates meet up exactly where Joyce and Hopper find Will.

That thumbnail summarizes the EXACT feeling everyone had by the end of this episode. Love you guys.

Joyce and Murray need their own adventure spin off.

The death scene coming right after the most amazing stranger things scene ever made was the craziest change of emotions for me. I kind of knew that Eddie was gonna die the moment he changed his mind about going through the gate. Crying from happiness after that running up that hill scene and then immediately sobbing my heart out for Eddie was the most passionately I've felt for a finale since avengers endgame. Eddie deserved better man, I don't think the Duffer brothers determined how loved he would be by fans x

It does suck that eddie died, but if he go through the gate with dustin, the bats will just chase them down. So instead of getting both of them in danger, he might have thought that it will be best to lure the bats away from the gate , from dustin, and chose to fight till the end, instead of dying running away.

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Yessss I’ve been anticipating this reaction!! What an amazing finale! ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR SADIE SINK AND CALEB MCLAUGHLIN 👏🏼👏🏼

Poor max. 😭 I had a hunch that vecna would still get max. The fact that we still had to see her get broken up like that really hurts. Now, in a coma, I know she will come back but probably not herself/human vegetable or vegetative state. She definitely will be blind though and if she’s does recover from her broken bones injury, she might be crippled or paralyzed in a wheelchair.

The writing, acting, graphics, CGI, everything was just absolutely phenomenal.

max’s “death” hit me so hard holy shit. after everything she went through that i can relate to, she lost.

Doesn't sound like they picked up that Will was lying about the painting being Eleven's idea. Mike should have known as well, actually, Eleven told him in a letter in episode 1 that Will was painting something and she had no idea what it was.

I really wish Eddie could have stayed for season 5, like part of the team 😭😭😭

If it wasn't for Eddie, the bats would have followed them to their world.

Eddie is the best caracter this season🥲

That scene was gut wrenching 😭😭

33:15 First Agents of SHIELD and now Stranger Things, Joel Stoffer (Eddie's uncle) seems determined to make me cry in everything I see him in. I hope he gets to be in season five. If nothing more than to carry on Eddie's legacy and do his part in saving the world from Vecna.

If Eddie didn’t do that, the bats probably would have went back to the house… probably stopping the attack on Vecna.

"damn dude this gonna be a zoom call finale dude" that is brilliant

“Erica, help” had me in tears

Just another tearjerker for y’all. “Erica help!” Was actually improvised by Caleb

Eddie dying hit me hard, then Max practically almost dying really just made me cry a fucking river. This finale was fucking intense and I loved every moment of it. Part of me doesn’t want another season because Hawkins deserves a fucking break.

I think next season we’ll see Eleven trying to find max in Max’s subconscious, or maybe even in Vecna’s mind. Like maybe how Papa used to have her search in the “darkness”. I wonder if because what Vecna was doing to max was interrupted when it was, she wasn’t able to wake up correctly (her vision not working). Hopefully with time we will see her heal!

Suraj's quick camera glance at the mention of Vecna being sent to "the Sideways"? This LOST fan was dying 😂

This might be one of the most heartbreaking episodes of stranger things ever.

Max is still alive inside Vecna. Remember, he absorbs his victims. However, unlike the other victims, her body is still living. She can be restored to her body. I don't understand how they'll have a time jump after that ending.

26:24 I know it's emotional as fuck, but Chris yelling "NOOOO" was funny to me.

I watched the finale while I was on a plane ride and it was taking all power of all the gods for me not to start crying in front of the person sitting next to me.

I’m glad they also thought of “Tatakae” during Mike’s speech lol

Who is the editor of the video...? Funniest person I never met. The captions are just fenomenal

This was so good it didn’t feel like a 2 1/2 hour movie! So bummed about Eddie, they better clear his name and raise a monument in his honor next season!

For next season I really hope we get a scene of Steve visiting Max in the hospital showing us how he feels about losing one of his children

I kinda knew Eddie was going out since otherwise he was going to have to skip town since he had no way to clear his name.

I don’t think Max “dying” is a negative message considering the allusions to suicide. Before she “dies” her last words are “I don’t want to die, I’m not ready”, which is super tragic but shows how she has begun to overcome her depression, and whilst earlier in the season we see her wish for death, she fought like hell and realised, when faced with death, that she still wanted to live. But it sure makes that end hurt like hell:( I still have hope for her to come back in S5

Johnathon indirectly telling will he knows he’s gay and it’s ok is huge. Especially considering the show is set in the 80’s where it wasn’t generally acceptable to be gay.

Impressive how the writers actually did a good job at making everyone cry.

I saw a comment on Reddit which justifies the decision around Jason’s death. Jason has gone through his life being the centre of attention, everything is always about him, being the captain of the basketball team, the most popular kid in school etc. So it is fitting that way he dies is in a blink and you’ll miss it way, Eddie just died and max got paralysed and Hawkins is getting ripped in half, Jason getting ripped in half is completely irrelevant. And this is how most of the deaths this season has been, everything coming full circle for each character: Brenner realising he’s the monster, Eddie stops running and fights back and becomes the hero, and even Max telling the truth about how she really felt about Billy dying (whether that was truth or not) and then Jason being completely irrelevant, it’s great writing, as satisfying it would be for vecna to snap Jason’s bones Also about Max, Brenner said that when 001 kills he doesn’t just kills, he consumes so when Max died her soul was ripped from her and vecna consumed it, hence he was able to create a gate. El just brought Max’s body back to life, started her heart again, but she’s now just a soulless body. This will definitely have some kind of implication is S5, I’m thinking maybe Max’s soul is trapped in that place in Vecnas mind with the floating parts of the house and El or Will or someone has to rescue Max from there

I was there with you all...through the highs, lows, flips, turns, upside down, right-side up rollercoaster ride of emotions. The final season cannot be here fast enough.

This episode makes me want to flip over so many tables. The Eddie and Max mainly Max death scene is the most heartbreaking TV death scene I've ever seen. Imagine being an inch from death like that and not knowing where you will go or be. She was so scared and I just wanted to hug her. Caleb deserves an emmy for his performance. The "Erica, help" part was improvised and it may have only been two words but it was powerful. Eddie and Max deserved so much better.

Vecna whenever he kills someone he basically takes their soul/mind and uses it to increase his power so Vecna has atleast a good chunk of Max's soul rn. She'll most likely be pretty much braindead until the end of the series unless El takes a dive into Vecna's mind and recovers Max from within like halfway through the season which i bet is whats going to happen.

Nancy's vision all came true. During their discussion, she also said that she saw her family, Holly and Mike included, all dead. So I wonder if that's gonna be unavoidable in season 5.

eddie will always be my favourite i love him forever and i miss him.

This was Max's season. Everyone was amazing but her acting was phenomenal for someone so young as well.

12:10 "Where, do you go? The Sideways." Suraj: *Spinoff!

They explained that vecna consumes them when he kills someone so my guess is Max's mind is in Vecna and Eleven needs to take it back from him for her to comeback.

Stranger Things made the comeback of the century with this season. The final 2 episodes were an incredible experience. I felt nothing but sheer emotion, stress and excitement for the whole final few hours.

Suraj not giving a shit about the gates merging because max died was me when I was watching. I had to pause at the merging to cry and make sense of the fuckery when she died. Ugh I’m so glad they made her live

I love in the final scene, how everyone walks out to the dying hillside... except Argyle. They just left his ass alone in the woods!

Eddie is so powerful that he started playing drums with his guitar

This show is Lost 2.0 and I love it for it. A bunch of likeable ordinary people dealing with supernatural threat and becoming the best versions of themselves, a wide range of emotions from absolute happiness to massive tearjerkes, mystery, epicness and spectacular finales that tie all the ongoing storylines together in an amazing climax. I love this show more with each season.

I loved season 1, but season 4 has kind of blown it out of the water.

It’s so convenient how in every season shit goes down when they’re on break from school apart from season one

I believe Max's letters are going to into play next season. She did say they were a failsafe.

Watching this makes me realize that the police, the elders and adults in Hawkins are literally the most useless human beings. They have 4 seasons to step up the game after so many weird incidents happening in their town. The audacity to hate the person who died saving their lives.

I know this is random but Vecnas clock sound is one of the most terrifying things of all time

Homie said “Master of Puppets isn’t super hard”…if only you knew 💀🔥

26:50 “where do you go?” “The side ways”💀😭

Has to be asked....how many times is Rana gonna doubt Lucas? She was like always the first to give up on him thinking he was siding with Jason or selling out Eddie. In this reaction she actually thinks Not Lucas is Real Lucas when saying all the creepy things to Max in the attic. And it took her forever to realize it was not him. Like why would Lucas even care that Max would want her racist, despicable brother, Billy, dead?

This season hands down was a whole rollercoaster!! The emotions were everywhere and I cannot wait for season 5. We're in the endgame now guys and im ready for it!

The editing here was just as entertaining as the actual recap

Eddie knew the bats would get through the portal so drew them away from it, Dustin and the real world. Eddie died protecting everyone.

22:54 that argyle impression was spot on💀

Well Chris, Eddie was made to look like a younger Eddie van Halen :) Also the Nancy gang was pretty balanced. Robin with the throwables, Nancy with the gun and Steve with the melee.

The line : where do you go now the sideways 🤣🤣

SPOILERS: While eddie was dying an ad popped up LMAO

If Eddie hadn't sacrificed himself, the bats would've got back to the house and massacred Nancy, Robin, and Steve on Vecna's wall.

Lots of tears were shed on my first watch and watching all the reaction videos got me crying more. Fantastic season and amazing finale. Can't wait for season 5.

I enjoyed this reaction. Another perspective on an awesome series and episode. Thank you all. 👊🏼

asking myself whether i’m ready to watch it again with you guys and cry again since i definitely haven’t recovered from it…but here we go i guess. and it’s been fun watching this season with you guys, thank you!

bruh i was hype when hopper hit the shimmy on the demogorgan, the song made it perfect

eddie did have to run though, they didn’t know that the bats would die. he led them away from the trailer where steve, nancy and robin would have to back to.

Thank you, Rana!👏 for being so heart felt and all the rest of the Normies!🔥💯

It was so hard seeing Joel Stoffer crying, I only will ever see him as Enoch and seeing Enoch cry is fucking heartbreaking

jason is literally the most freaking annoying character ever, i literally cheered when he died lol, also, caleb (lucas' actor) ATE and left no crumbs, he was so good this whole season omg, also sadie and millie of course, i hated that 2-day time jump so much lol, i hope they explain wth happened in the upside down after eddie died, this season had so many loose ends that i really hope get tied in s5, the ending of the episode tho, that was a good setup for next season, now we just have to wait

Suraj saying "Let's go, talking no jutsu!" when Eleven said "Papa is dead" got me HAHAHA

Dustin and Eddie's Uncle is one of the best scenes 😞 Just a sec, I have something in my eye . . .

So El brought Max back...but she's just an empty shell hence the empty bottle, I think she knows and that's why she is so upset.

Dude, I could see Strangers Things 5 just being a blockbuster IMAX movie. I doubt that'll happen, but I can't see too many episodes left with Hawkins opened up like it is