'There's More to Read Into It': Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Showrunner Eric Robles Answers the Biggest Burning Questions About the Animated Series

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 Season 1, including the season finale. With 10 episodes in the books on Netflix, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 has finished its first campaign in the “secret season” that takes place between Seasons 2 and 3 of the live-action parent series. And if you were wondering, at least given that ending – nope, this is not a one-and-done. There are far more tales to tell from the winter of 1985…if fans are intrigued enough to go on more adventures. In case you’re curious, we won’t explain the entire ending of the series beat for beat, but to give some context: If you’re wondering how the Hawkins kids had any sort of adventure with monsters after the gate in Hawkins Lab was closed at the end of Season 2, here’s the gist. As it turns out, when the government was cleaning out the remains of the Upside Down vines at the end of Season 2, some were left behind for experimentation. Utilizing a formula created by substitute teacher Anna Baxter (Janeane Garofalo), former Hawkins Lab worker Daniel Fischer (Lou Diamond Phillips) was able to renanimate one of the vines, creating an evolved, spore-based version of the Upside Down creatu