Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour, Netflix’s favorite telekinetic teen and reluctant dad duo, have shared more screen time than most families share dinners. Add Lily Allen, Harbour’s estranged pop-star wife, and suddenly, the world of Hawkins starts to feel less like sci-fi and more like Shakespeare. Their names now orbit the same headline, and the energy is no longer cinematic but quietly combustible, equal parts fame, fallout, and public fascination.

While Vecna haunted Hawkins in darkness and dread, the real storm seems to be brewing under spotlights and studio ceilings.

Millie Bobby Brown reportedly filed a harassment and bullying complaint against her Stranger Things co-star David Harbour before filming began for the show’s fifth and final season, as reported by Daily Mail. The outlet claimed she submitted “pages and pages of accusations,” prompting an internal investigation that stretched across months. Netflix has remained publicly silent, while Harbour’s estranged wife, Lily Allen, reportedly stood by him through the chaos of scrutiny.

The controversy arrived alongside reports of Harbour’s alleged infidelity, said to have fueled Lily Allen’s freshly released album 'West End Girl,' which dropped on October 24, as reported by The Daily Mail. The title track unfolds like a heartbreak soliloquy in a West End dressing room, “Now I’m in London and I’m all alone,” a lyric that feels less sung and more confessed. While Allen turns ache into art, Stranger Things readies its grand finale on December 31, cinematic tears guaranteed.

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While Hawkins has already shed its fair share of tears and primed audiences for more, Stranger Things is no stranger to courtrooms either, where plot twists come stamped, signed, and filed instead of streamed.

Stranger Things has never exactly avoided courtroom drama. Its most talked-about legal saga, Charlie Kessler v. Duffer Brothers, played out like a missing season Netflix forgot to stream. Kessler claimed the Duffers lifted the show’s concept from his short film Montauk after a 2014 Tribeca chat. The brothers hit back with pre-2014 notes like evidence from Hawkins Lab. The 2018 case vanished in 2019, slipping away before trial like a Demogorgon in the mist.

Then came 2020, when Irish Rover Entertainment accused Netflix and the Duffers of copying elements from Totem, a screenplay by Jeffrey Kennedy. The similarities, psychic girls, eerie forces, and small-town terror sparked another creative face-off. Netflix dismissed it as baseless, insisting the creators had never encountered Totem. The case survived its first legal hurdle before slipping out of headlines, leaving behind yet another unsolved subplot in Stranger Things’ already dramatic offscreen universe.

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