Stranger Things creators reveal the one character death they regret

There’s a lot of death in ‘Stranger Things’, but the show’s creators admit they got one wrong.

Like everyone else, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks poring over the new season of Stranger Things and playing Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill on repeat.

Now that I’ve finally caught up and it’s safe to go on the internet again, I’m still left wondering what one relationship might be like if it had been allowed to happen — and yes, there are a lot of spoilers about to happen.

Chrissy and Eddie share very few scenes together, but I ship it. Picture: Netflix

No, I’m not talking about the Steve-Nancy-Jonathan love triangle (although I’m 100 per cent team Steve). I’m talking about the incredibly short, but winningly tender moments between lead cheerleader Chrissy Cunningham (played by Grace Van Dien) and undeniably hot Dungeons & Dragons nerd, Eddie Munson (played by Joseph Quinn).

I won’t get too into the details — just in case you accidentally ignored my spoilers warning — but their scene together in the woods is oddly wholesome, considering it’s about drugs. Wholesome in the way that made me hope the actors had the hots for each other in real life.

Unfortunately, Chrissy is sapped apart by Vecna before any kind of relationship between the two could gather momentum — a choice that the show’s creators now regret.

I cannot resist a hot rocker-nerd type. Picture: Netflix

Chrissy and Eddie forever. Picture: Netflix

Speaking to TVLine, the Duffer brothers explained that by the time they realised they should have let love flow between these two characters, it was too late.

“We always have those moments [of ‘What have we done?’],” Matt Duffer said. “We shot the quote-unquote drug-deal scene in the woods pretty late, actually, into shooting.”

Ross Duffer added that they’d already killed Chrissy when the woods scene was filmed, but the magic of the scene was just these two actors vibing.

“The scene came alive in a way that was just so beautiful,” said Matt. “And so much of that was Joe and Grace.”

“It was just one of those fortunate scenes where we were able to have two cameras rolling capturing them simultaneously,” he continued. “Joe was doing a lot of stuff kinda spontaneously, and we were getting these amazing reactions from Grace.”

Personally, I’m still rooting for some sort of magic Chrissy/ Eddie reunion — it’s a show in which stranger things have happened.