Stranger Things Season 5, has dropped and finally given fans the much anticipated coming out scene for Will Byers, played by Noah Schnapp. While there has been hints at Will's sexuality through the show, this is the first time the show has explicitly addressed his sexuality.
Schnapp said: "I think it is done so beautifully, because it's so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay. They are writing this real character and this real journey and real struggle and they're doing it so well."
However, the internet is still abuzz discussing the episode which Will finally came out as gay to his family and friends. Five minutes of a gay character's coming-out scene just broke the internet, because of course it did.
For years, Stranger Things gave us straight romances: Mike and Eleven, Nancy's love triangle, Steve's dating drama, Dustin and Suzie, Lucas and Max. Hours of heterosexual flirting, secret girlfriends, and teenage angst.
Nobody called that an "agenda." Nobody review-bombed those episodes. When Mike spent entire episodes obsessing over Eleven, that was just storytelling. When Lucas risked everything for Max, that was beautiful.
Straight "moments" are everywhere, all the time, in every show. But give us five minutes, in a series finale, in a scene that's crucial to the plot, and the angry mob shows up screaming about agendas. Thanks Netflix for moments like that!
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