Stranger Things is headed back for one last trip to Hawkins, Indiana this fall, but before saying goodbye to the series, Netflix has released a new featurette looking back on the previous four seasons with reflections from the show’s cast and crew. The series is set to end with its upcoming fifth and final season, which will premiere in three blocks. The first will drop on Thanksgiving, November 26; the second on Christmas Day, December 25; and the third on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2026.
In the featurette, cast and crew share their experiences making the show: creators Matt and Ross Duffer discuss the origins of the show in an exploration of the magic of childhood, while David Harbour discloses that the show was the best script he’d ever read. The younger cast members, including Gaten Matarazzo, talk about growing up on the set, while their older castmates, like Winona Ryder, discuss the gift of being able to see the child actors’ journey into adulthood. Meanwhile, Joe Keery discusses the show’s overriding theme of societal outcasts banding together. The featurette also teases the upcoming final season, which cast and crew promise is a true high-stakes grand finale, with every episode being bigger and better than the next, leading up to a satisfying conclusion. Who will survive, and what will be left of them? You’ll have to tune into Netflix this fall to find out.
Where Did Season Four of ‘Stranger Things’ Leave Off?
After four seasons of gruesome incursions from the misshapen monsters of the “Upside Down” dimension, Stranger Things‘ intrepid crew of protagonists finally uncovered the true mastermind behind it all. Henry Creel, alias “Vecna” (Jamie Campbell Bower) was a telepath with psychic powers who was subjected to government experiments: years before the series started, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) banished him to the Upside Down, where he spent years gaining control over its creatures and sending them to menace the “real world.” As his power grew, our heroes mounted a desperate assault on him in the Upside Down, resulting in the death of Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) and the grievous wounding of Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink). However, despite his seeming defeat, the walls between dimensions began to fall, and interdimensional rifts began to open all over Hawkins.
Details about the fifth season of Stranger Things have been kept close to the vest; its surviving main characters will be joined by an icon of the 1980s in the form of Linda Hamilton, who will play Dr. Kay. And while some truly butt-numbing episode runtimes were seemingly leaked earlier this year, Ross Duffer asserts that they were fake.
Stranger Things‘ fifth and final season will premiere in three blocks; the first on November 26, the second on December 25, and the third on January 1, 2026.
via Collider