Netflix has had a wildly successful year with new projects like War Machine, the hit sci-fi movie starring Alan Ritchson from the Prime Video series, Reacher. After War Machine picked up over 135 million views during its optimal viewing window on Netflix, the film was crowned one of the streamer’s top 10 most-watched titles ever, and Netflix has already confirmed that a sequel is in the early stages of development. Netflix set out to find more sci-fi success with the TV show The Boroughs, but the show proved to be too costly to continue beyond Season 1 — Netflix canceled the show after only one season while it was still in the top 10. What made this more upsetting is that it was positioned to be the next Stranger Things, especially considering it was produced by Matt and Ross Duffer.
If the names Matt and Ross Duffer sound familiar, it’s because the duo are the creators of Stranger Things, which is one of the most popular Netflix shows ever made. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things began streaming late last year, and it continued to New Year’s Day, when the series finale was even put in select theaters for fans to enjoy on the big screen. It didn’t take Netflix long to bring back the franchise with its first spin-off, Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85, which dropped all episodes as a binge earlier this year. Netflix renewed the show for Season 2 not long after the premiere, and the streamer confirmed not long ago that the next batch of Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 episodes will officially hit streaming next month on September 17.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
06
What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
Will ‘Stranger Things’ Ever Get a Sequel Series?
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Netflix has not announced a potential Stranger Things revival series yet, but this isn’t all that surprising, considering the show went off the air less than one year ago. Netflix certainly has bigger plans for the future of Stranger Things beyond this one animated show, but the only spin-off that’s been announced is one focused on the rock found by the young Henry Creel that gave him his powers, and even that’s still in the early stages of development. Stranger Things star Sadie Sink is already having a successful career post-Stranger Things, starring in Spider-Man: Brand New Day before headlining Marvel’s new X-Men movie.
Check out new episodes of Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the Stranger Things franchise.
Release Date
April 23, 2026
Network
Netflix
Showrunner
Eric Robles
Directors
Phil Allora, JJ Conway, Ben Choi
Writers
ChatGPT, Dan Milano, Ray Utarnachitt, Jennifer Muro, Chad Quandt, Chris Wyatt, Kevin Burke, Jen Bardekoff, Joshua Pruett