Fans of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things are up in arms about a wild theory that Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour’s final scenes were faked. It comes after reports of bullying allegations on set
The Stranger Things fandom are in a frenzy after one eagled-eyed viewer spotted something telling about Hopper and Eleven’s final scenes.
The show’s epic finale landed on Netlix on New Year’s Day and ever since, viewers have been pouring over every single shot as they mourn the ending of the series. The cast’s farewell after 10 years of filming togther came after Eleven actor Millie Bobby Brown reportedly made a formal complaint accusing her co-star David Harbour (Hopper) of harassment and bullying before production began on the hit Netflix show’s fifth and final season. A source said: “There were pages and pages of accusations. The investigation went on for months.”
However, not long after the allegations came to light, David and Millie made a public display of unity by walking into the Stranger Things red carpet final premiere on 6 November and hugging in front of the media. Millie also likened co-star and screen dad David to her father calling their friendship “special”. When asked about the importance of showing a united front, to which Millie said: “We’ve been doing that for the last 10 years.”
What really happened on set of the Duffer brother’s show remains a mystery, but one fan believes that the last episodes of the show pointed to things not being so cosy between David and Millie during filming. Self-proclaimed pop culture fanatic Matthew Huff took to TikTok to share his theory that both actors filmed their joint scenes seperately amid tensions – with producers simply cutting them together in the final edit.
In a now-viral video, Matt, who posts as @thereportcardmatthewhuff, shared: “I think there is evidence that these two HATE each other,” pointing to images of the co-stars embracing on November 6, 2025. “Supposedly, these two had ‘beef’ on set but they’re promoting the show so they did this staged photoshoot at the premiere like they’re buddy-buddy,” said Matthew before showing a screengrab of a video “Netflix released of them hugging”.
On November 26, Millie told The Hollywood Reporter that “everything was fine” with her on-screen dad, the content creator explained, before stating that, despite this, he had been “watching these two the entire season with an eagle eye”.
Referring to Eleven’s goodbye to Hopper, he claimed: “I think this scene in the season finale is very telling. Why is it telling? Because there is a decades-old tradition of actors hating each other but having to do scenes together. So they came up with some very clever camera tricks to make it appear that these two people are shooting together when, actually, they are not speaking. They are not in the same room”.
“They’re coming up on to the roof. This is their final scene of the show so it should be very emotional,” Matthew says, showing clips of Millie in grey. “We have this shot where Millie Bobby Brown is in the front. There is somebody in the background, maybe David Harbour but its dark, we can’t really tell.”
He prefaces how there is then “one very quick establishing shot where Millie is in the foreground and David is in the back. I do think everybody was in the room for this”. However, the TikToker things that after this, things change. “Very quickly, we pivot,” Matthew claims, showing a shot where “Harbour has his back to the camera” and saying: “I think that is a body double”.
He continues: “We then then get a shot with no David Harbour, and we very briefly see this [a dimly lit shot with Harbour in the background] which I think could have been edited to add him in”. The creator the highlights the scene circling back to Harbour’s back facing the camera as he crouches in the background, adding that “he’s squatting in the corner for no reason”.
The scene peaks during the emotional exchange between Eleven and her adoptive father Hopper. Matthew states: “I think this could be a ‘Parent Trap’ shot where as long as they [the actors] don’t cross the middle of this shot, its fine”. Here he refers to the editing done to actress Lindsey Lohan, and later seen of Michael B. Jordan in Sinners, where clips are lined up to mimic one shot.
Suggesting several close-up shots could potentially be the real actor or parts of body doubles, the scene “very quickly zooms in so that we don’t even have Harbour’s silhouette [in the shot]”.
The “biggest tell of all,” and “the real red flag,” says Matthew, is that “we don’t even get a full hug shot. Instead, Eleven passes the bracelet to a gloved hand, which could be anyone. Rather than any sort of emotional hug which would have required these two actors to be in the same room, we get this light little arm tap. There’s nothing like an arm tap to say ‘oh, I’m about to die. I might never see you again,'” he jokes.
The analysis concludes with a zoom in of the final shot, showing an extremely poorly lit scene of David Harbour and “the back of someone, perhaps not Millie.”. Posted a week ago, the TikTok has received nearly 658,000 views, 54,200 likes and nearly 400 comments. Interestingly, one comment wrote: “I got the vibe when I noticed that ‘Papa’ officiated her wedding and not ‘hop,'” which was liked by 847 users.
Source: Mirror
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