Finn Wolfhard: Season 5 is "isolated"...
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Finn Wolfhard talked about how each season has been bigger than the previous one.
I'm assuming he's talking about the action and spectacle of each season. Season 5 will probably have action scenes that surpass what we've already had. (Mike is protecting Will, Joyce, and the kids from something!)
But Finn also makes the interesting comment that Season 5 is "isolated as well":
What else could this mean besides a stand-in for "intimate"? He must somehow be contrasting s5 to the most recent seasons. He refers here to "getting back into a lot of the dynamics of season one." Season 1 had the core characters, and everyone was in Hawkins. Season 4 dispersed our characters to several locations. Doesn't "isolated" mean that s5 will have more focus on the dynamics between the original core group of characters? And also that the bonds between those characters become stronger than ever?
Finn talked about getting to have scenes with "The Core Four."
But also he didn't use the word "intimate" here; he used the word "ISOLATED." An interesting word!
Isolated, as in being alone together?
Two people working as a team?
Doesn't he have to be talking about being "isolated" with one other person?
What better candidate for Mike to be "isolated" with, than the person he promised he'd fight evil with, as "best friends"? His best friend since kindergarten who's canonically in love with him and sacrificed his own feelings for MIke? The person who Mike, in Season 1, wanted to rescue and protect? Who, if we're returning to Season 1 dynamics, will again be Mike's focus?
Finn's characterization of Season 5 mirrors what show co-creator Shawn Levy says about the last season: "People talk about mythology and The Upside Down, and all that is huge, but the magic of S5 are the characters who find sense of belonging with [each] other and through that connection, become heroes."
The HEART of Season 5 will be its relationships, which has to include one of the most profound and loving relationships on the show.
