Why “Stranger Things” Season 5 Is 'Ruined' for Linda Hamilton: 'I Won't Be Watching'

As a fan of the hit Netflix series, Hamilton admits she felt "imposter syndrome" after being cast in its final season

Linda Hamilton considers herself a Stranger Things fan, so you’d think working on season 5 would be a dream come true — but the actress found the opposite to be true.

“I’ve watched every season with relish. I just love it,” Hamilton, 67, told Us Weekly. “So it’s kind of like imposter syndrome where I don’t [feel that I] fit in there. That’s a whole world set in the ’80s.”

Being part of the show made Hamilton view it differently. “When you really buy into something, you don’t see yourself in it,” she admitted. “So I think in a way, it kind of ruined the show for me.”

Still, she loved the experience, affirming, “I’m thrilled to be part of it. But I just never, ever saw that one coming. It is different when you’re a fan of the show to sort of go, ‘Well, how do I fit?’ But we’re working on it.”

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The Resident Alien star won’t even watch the fifth and final season of Stranger Things because “I never watch [a project], once I’m in something. It would just completely take me out of the reality of it to see myself in there. So I won’t be watching.”

One might expect that, at the very least, Hamilton knows how the show ends — but not so, says the actress.

“I Zoomed Ross and Matt Duffer, and they gave me the shape of the character, but not of the story,” she explained. “Because they have to be very careful with their story. So I still don’t know how it ends. And it takes a lot of discipline to not know where it’s going to go. But that’s to protect it from all of the people that want to know.”

That said, Hamilton does promises that season 5 is “good. It’s really good.”

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Stranger Things season 4 ended with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) escaping the military’s attempt to kill her and being freed from Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine). The rest of the gang took on Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and Eddie (Joseph Quinn) died in pursuit of defeating the Demobats. Max (Sadie Sink) died during the battle with Vecna but was resurrected by Eleven — though she remained in a coma, her fate hanging in the balance.

Elsewhere, Hopper (David Harbour) and Joyce (Winona Ryder) finally kissed after she broke him out of a Russian prison camp. They return to Hawkins but the homecoming didn’t last long. Particles of the Upside Down started to fall from the sky in the real world, turning the grass and flowers into black-and-white rot. The season's final moments showed smoke breaking through the cracks of the Upside Down and the sky filling with red lightning.

“There’s like, huge rift earthquakes going through all of Indiana, one would assume,” Harbour, 48, told British GQ. “So I don’t know what the f---is gonna happen in season 5 now.”

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