While Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 doesn’t officially come out and have Will say it, those billboards Brett wrote about now feel like they’ve been lit up like a technicolor Times Square ad.
This crush reveals itself in clues dropped by Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), arguments between the two out-of-sync teen boys, and tortured, loving glances that Will secrets Mike’s way. They’re billboards,” Brett wrote before expertly picking apart each and every thread that Stranger Things had woven into the tapestry of Will’s potentially gay identity.Īs it happens, Stranger Things Season 4 seems to not only confirm that Will is gay, but that he also has a very real crush on his long-time best friend Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard). “Okay okay okay–the show doesn’t come out and explicitly address it, and the scene I’m talking about may have left some viewers scratching their heads, but to a gay like me, a gay who was 100% Will Byers when he was 14, I’ve picked up on all of the signs.
