With the credit scene in Enola Holmes 3 showing a picture of a woman painting three waterfalls and the waterfalls being in Sardinia made me think about Italy . (not because it’s my home country or anything…)
I think we have underestimated how many fucking things happened in Italy, stranger things related. As someone who lives in Italy, these things stayed in my mind a lot…
Because what if instead of in Iceland Jane has been in Italy all along? So what happened in Italy cast related?
Turns out a lot more than I expected…
They started the ST5 press tour on Halloween 2025 before volume one dropped in Italy. The day before the trailer came out, we all know that the trailer was leaked and that is confirmed by Ross Duffer posting a picture of him and Matt with their head under their hands saying “ when the trailer gets leaked while you’re in Italy”
No, I don’t have the picture, but I know damn well it exists…
I found it pretty weird that the trailer leak was CONFIRMED instead of trying to brush it off until the actual trailer dropped the next day…
And the fact that they were in Italy was mentioned, I also found pretty weird…
I will tell you that all that was said in that first press tour in Italy was absolute bullshit…
The Duffers said they had known the ending that was 40 minutes long since the beginning and that it was perfect, because everyone would’ve hated it if it weren’t….
It was in fact, not perfect…
Finn said Mike becomes a leader again, which everyone knows it’s total fucking bullshit by now…
Caleb says look at his story comes full circle, and I’m like… what story??? being a boyfriend????
Noah expressed great gratitude to the Duffers for handling Wills story so well. I’M WHEEZING. They did not….
And when the cast was asked their favourite memories, they all said the first ever scene they filmed and the last ever scene they filmed…
That checks out… but the rest is bullshit…
The next time the car fucking comes to Italy was a few weeks ago…
Will Noah blindly states for the first time ever that he “didn’t want Byler” DAMN
Also, back in 2022 my dad had contacts that they said they were working on new monsters for season five…
And doing some research, Italy had a big part in the CGI of the season when talking about monsters…
An Italian studio handled the movement of the vines…. So italy is basically the mind flayer
And then blending digital models were used to seamlessly blend the real make up and the end result…
So basically, Italy is blending the right side up in the upside down… together…
So I think we should pay a lot more attention when Italy is mentioned next time….
Now I’m sure I’m missing some things… but I’m sure you’ll fill me if there’s anything relevant.
In summary, #italygate
