Does the Stranger Things finale look like a Linkin Park music video? In the End’s director thinks so too

In the final episode of Stranger Things, the kids from Hawkins have their final confrontation with Vecna, not in the Upside Down, but in the previously little-seen alternate dimension known as “The Abyss” (aka, Dimension X). The visual difference between the two is striking. While the Upside Down is blue-tinted with red lightning and, seemingly, always enveloped in shadow, the Abyss is a dry, hazy, craggy, rocky yellow desert, at the center of which is a dead-looking tree. Having only glimpsed it briefly in previous episodes, the Abyss seemed wholly new to fans.