Millie Bobby Brown shared video of the emotional farewell speech she gave as ‘Stranger Things’ wrapped filming

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After five seasons, horror hit Netflix Stranger Things is coming to an end. While fans don’t have to fully grapple with the end of the series before it final episode airs (which is currently expected to happen sometime in 2025), the cast and crew had to say goodbye when filming wrapped on the final season (a milestone Netflix confirmed in a post on X — née Twitter — on Dec. 20).

“IT’S A COMPLEXION OF STRANGER THINGS. See you in 2025,” the streamer wrote in the post alongside a collage of photos from Stranger Things set.

Netflix may have kept it short and sweet and generally chill when it posted sore Stranger Things wraps forever, but since she’s a human being and not a giant corporation, Millie Bobby Brown had a much more emotional take.

The 20-year-old actress who landed what turned out to be her breakthrough role as Eleven in the series when she was only 11 years oldshared an emotional post on Instagram with a carousel featuring seven photos commemorating her time playing the character.

Although she didn’t say much in the post’s caption (which was simply “with love, el “), let the words flow in a video at the end of the carousel. That honor is where Brown shared a clip from her last day on set, in which she read an emotional speech that compared wrapping the series to graduation day.

“And isn’t graduation supposed to bring relief? Like you’re happy to leave the teachers and classmates behind. Not me. I’m not nearly ready to leave you guys,” she told an audience of cast and crew gathered around as she read the message from her phone (proving it was something she really thought about, as if the emotion in her voice didn’t do it alone).

Brown kept her remarks (or at least the part she was willing to share with strangers on the Internet) brief, ending by adding, “I love each and every one of you and I will forever carry those memories and bond we created together as a family I love you, thank you.”

The Damsel actress wasn’t the only member of the cast to write a goodbye tribute to Stranger Things is the series finished filming. On Friday, Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler on the show shared a carousel of three favorite photos from his time on set.

“We just wrapped Stranger things season 5. I’m still in shock. We shot it for a year and I’m going to miss all my friends and our characters terribly,” he wrote in the post’s caption. “When I think about the show, I imagine this first image. A bunch of goofy young people doing something they think is cool but really have no idea what’s coming. I feel like we’re still those people , and I’m lucky to still be standing next to them today, I hope you’ll love this season as much as I do .

Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers in the series, shared one Stranger Things tribute his own in the form of a top 10 list recalling some of the things he is most grateful for about members of the cast and crew.

“Growing up, I always felt like an outcast, unsure of where I fit in. It’s certainly been an unusual experience to navigate life in the spotlight while carrying this feeling, through every awkward phase and embarrassing moment that the world can see. I’ve been honored to share it with my incredible co-stars who understand it in a way no one else can,” he wrote in a personal note at the end of the lengthy caption. “‘Stranger Things’ was more than a job; it was a lifelong dream. A dream come true thanks to the Duffers. Thank you for taking a chance on me when I was just a 10-year-old kid and entrusting me with something so important for both of you. Together this cast + crew have built something so special and I couldn’t be more excited for the world to see the final chapter. Stranger Things is a never ending story to me – it’s in my heart forever. “

Sadie Sink (aka Max Mayfield) also focused on gratitude in her post commemorating the show’s final day of taping.

“It’s a series wrap on Stranger Things,” she captioned her own carousel of behind-the-scenes photos from the set. “This show, character and everyone involved made me who I am. It gave me the most amazing childhood. It brought me to my best friends. Saying goodbye is so painful, but I’m leaving with memories and love to last a lifetime. I am eternally grateful “