Stranger Things' Gaten Matarazzo Says There's a Good Reason Barb Had to Die 

fans. For all of you who were hoping Barb might magically come back from limbo-land/being dead? Sorry—she won\'t. “She has passed. She is dead,” Gaten Matarazzo, the 15-year-old who plays Dustin, told ELLE.comat the BAFTA pre-Emmy tea party in Beverly Hills on Saturday.

But don’t panic! That #justiceforbarb campaign must have hit home, because Matarazzo assures us that in season two, “There will be justice for Barb. We get to go into her story a lot.”

Adding that bringing her back from the dead would be “a little far-fetched” (although, remember this is a show in which you can communicate with an another dimension via a string of Christmas lights), Matarazzo said there was a reason the sweet, sad Barb (played by Shannon Purser) had to be sacrificed. “The character was written to die,” he said. “The character was written to have a defenseless underdog be killed to show the gruesomeness of everything, and to show that nobody is safe. That was what the character was, and I think that bringing her back would kind of defeat the purpose. So I think it really shows the danger of the show, and it shows the danger of everything that’s going on.”

aware of just how treacherous the Upside Down is. Still, we won\'t be throwing away our #justiceforbarb t-shirts any time soon.

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