Fans are wondering why Holly couldn't escape with Max from the Upside Down against Vecna in Stranger Things 5 part 2. Here's the reason why.

Stranger Things' director Shawn Levy on directing Max's return, that Jonathan-Nancy scene, Will's big moment and his final day on the set.

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5 Part 2. Readers' discretion is advised.

Max and Holly finally make a run for it in Stranger Things 5 episode 6, "Escape From Camazotz." Here's what Camazotz really is, what is happening to Holly and Max, and how they make their big escape.

Sadie Sink did acknowledge that it looked a bit absurd for Holly and Max to pause in the middle of an action scene for a chinwag. When Variety asked her about this moment, she said: “The hardest part about Stranger Things is that they love a lengthy monologue in the middle of the world ending.

Max made "a deal with God" and ran straight up the hill into Lucas' arms. It was magic. We talk about it ahead of the Stranger Things finale.

We recapped and reviewed Stranger Things 5 episode 6, “Escape From Camazotz,” live here at Winter is Coming. We don’t have to wait long to find out what happens next in the Upside Down. Nancy shoots at the sky, and suddenly, we see a big glowing vortex, followed by an explosion and the emergence of energy bolts that travel across the dimension.

In the final season of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things,’ Vecna prepares to execute his plan of taking over the world. The children of Hawkins are an important part of the plan, and their kidnapping prompts the others to investigate the true intentions of the villain.

As viewers will recall, Max was taken under Vecna’s spell, her bones broken, eyes damaged, and put into a coma. Season 5 revealed that Max had actually been in a trance this whole time, stuck in the space she’d end up calling Camazotz when she crossed paths with Holly Wheeler ( Nell Fisher) there.