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&34;We hope to not have that kind of thing happen,&34; the actor said. Finn Wolfhard feared Stranger Things' final season would get 'torn to shreds' like Game o

"We hope to not have that kind of thing happen," the actor said.

Finn Wolfhard feared Stranger Things' final season would get 'torn to shreds' like Game of Thrones

"We hope to not have that kind of thing happen," the actor said.

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Kit Harington on 'Game of Thrones'; Finn Wolfhard on 'Stranger Things'. Credit:

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Finn Wolfhard is admitting that he was initially worried about *Stranger Things* going the way of *Game of Thrones* in its final season.**

The actor known for playing suburban kid Mike Wheeler on the hit Netflix series revealed in a recent *Time* cover story that he was concerned the sci-fi show's fifth season might not be received well by fans — at least until he read the scripts.**

"I think everyone was pretty worried, honestly," Wolfhard said. "The way that *Game of Thrones *got torn to shreds in that final season, we're all walking into this going, 'We hope to not have that kind of thing happen.'"

Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Joe Keery, Charlie Heaton, and Gaten Matarazzo on 'Stranger Things'.

Courtesy of Netflix

Thankfully, after learning what the season had in store for Mike and the gang, Wolfhard realized he had nothing to worry about. "We knew that it was something special," he added.**

*Game of Thrones*' eighth and final season was hit with a heavy backlash when it aired in 2019, with furious fans skewering Emmy-winning writer-producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss for rushed plotlines and going so far as to create an online petition demanding that HBO remake the season with "competent writers." The petition has received more 1.8 million signatures to date.

And *GOT* fans weren't alone in that assessment — stars like Conleth Hill, who played Varys on the George R.R. Martin fantasy series, have also expressed their displeasure over how the show came to a close.**

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"I think the writers wanted to do one thing to end it and the studio HBO wanted to do another," he told the U.K.'s *Times* in 2023. "I felt that last [season] was a bit rushed. I was inconsolable, but now I'm fine about it."

Others cast members, like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, have stood up for the show and its writers.

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"For anyone to imagine or to think that the two creators of the show are not the most passionate, the greatest, the most invested of all, and to for a second think that they didn't spend the last 10 years thinking about how they were going to end it is kind of silly," he said at an event in 2019. He added, "They really ― like everyone on *Game of Thrones*, every single person, and there are thousands ― we worked our asses off to make the best show we could for the ending."

It's easy to see how Wolfhard and his castmates could have felt a similar sense of pressure regarding their show's finale, given that *Stranger Things* is another massive franchise with a rabid fan base that has been waiting for the final installment for more than three years.

Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, and Eduardo Franco on 'Stranger Things'.

Courtesy of Netflix

Dropping in three separate installments beginning Nov. 26, the final season of *Stranger Things* will follow Mike and the gang as they attempt to take down the villainous Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) — who has gone radio-silent following the events of season 4 — once and for all.

"This is the biggest season we've ever had in terms of action, in terms of visual effects, in terms of story," series co-creator Ross Duffer explained in a behind-the-scenes clip released last month. "Ultimately, what people want is to see these characters together one last time."**

Wolfhard described it as "the highest stakes that the show has ever been" in the video, which featured footage of him and Winona Ryder protecting a group of children against an unknown entity.**

The first volume of *Stranger Things* season 5 drops Nov. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, with the second volume following on Christmas Day and the finale arriving on New Year's Eve.

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