No bc I see so many people (mostly on tiktok) saying they think Max will die in vol 2 but idk. I feel like they’ve teased her death way too much for it to actually happen (same with Steve) and that if they actually go through with it it’d be way to predictable to make a huge impact.
But also… have any of y’all seen Fear Street? In Fear Street 1978 (Directed by Leigh Janiak, Ross Duffer’s wife), Sadie Sink (who also plays Max) plays Ziggy Berman, a teenage girl stuck at a 70s summer camp with a murderer on the loose. At the end of the previous movie in the Fear Street trilogy (Fear Street 1994), you learn that at the summer camp massacre there was only one survivor, named C. Berman. Viewers spend the entirety of the second movie assuming that Ziggy dies, and the survivor is her older sister Cindy, based on the first initial of the survivors name. They spend the whole movie teasing Ziggy’s death. However, at the end it’s revealed that Cindy was not C. Berman- Ziggy was, as her real name was actually Christine, and Ziggy was just a nickname.
So what if the same/a similar thing is being done with Max this season? What if they’re putting so much focus on Max dying to trick us, and it’s actually someone completely different?
To really drive home the similarities, here’s a recount:
Ziggy Berman and Max Mayfield are played by the same actress, Sadie Sink
Fear Street 1978 spends most of the movie teasing Ziggy’s death. Stranger Things S4 spends most of Vol 1 teasing Max’s death.
Fear Street is directed by Leigh Janaik. Stranger things is directed by Ross Duffer. Leigh and Ross are married.
Idk if I’m just reading too much into it but I wanted to put it out there. Thoughts?
