# Despite Netflix announcing upcoming Stranger Things prequel series, fans think there’s more to come from the main show

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/despite-netflix-announcing-upcoming-stranger-things-prequel-series-fans-think-theres-more-to-come-from-the-main-show/
- Published: 2026-11-09T11:14:41+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T12:39:31+00:00
- Original publisher: GamesRadar+
- Original article: https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/sci-fi-shows/despite-netflix-announcing-upcoming-stranger-things-prequel-series-fans-still-think-theres-more-to-come-from-the-main-show/
- Topics: Entertainment, Offbeat, Stranger Things, TV, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Fans suspect a Christmas special based on set photos.
- The final season was set in November 1989.
- Netflix has announced a 2028 prequel, not another main-series episode.

## Summary

More than 10 months after *Stranger Things* season five ended, some fans are again speculating that the main show may have a secret episode, this time a Christmas special. The renewed theory matters because Netflix’s Stranger Things Day announcement of a prequel was taken by fans as a possible hint of more franchise news, despite no sign that another main-series episode is planned.

Fans point to final-season set photos showing Christmas decorations in Hawkins and a bauble marked “The Wheelers 1989”, although the season was set in November and the decorations may simply have been filming props. Earlier “Conformity Gate” theories claimed the finale was a ruse and a ninth episode would appear on 7 January, but no alternate ending arrived; Netflix’s announced projects include the 2028 prequel *Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure* and season two of *Stranger Things: Tales from ’85*.

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