Stranger Things season 5 will be released in 2025 – and Netflix has finally lifted the lid on some key details about its plot
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Netflixhas officially announced thatStranger Thingsseason 5will air sometime in 2025 – and confirmed which year it’ll be set in.
Revealing the news on Stranger Things Day – aka November 6, the in-universe date when Will Byers went missing in 1983 – Netflix revealed the hugely popular show will return sometime next year. The streaming titan also confirmed it’ll take place in the fall of 1987 (that’s autumn for non-US readers). Season 5, then, will occur around 18 months afterStranger Thingsseason 4’s ending.
The streaming giant didn’t confirm whenStranger Things' fifth and final season would actually debut but, with filming not set to wrap until December, we already knewStranger Thingsseason 5 wouldn’t release in 2024. Still, it’s good to know wewon’t have to wait until 2026 to watch the show’s fifth season.
These reveals weren’t the only ones that greetedStranger Thingsfans during this year’s edition of the franchise’s annual celebrations. Netflix also chose to unveil the episode titles for all of season 5’s chapters, which you can check out below. Let the fan theorizing about what they’re teasing, especially episode 2’s title, commence!
This isn’t the first time that the world’sbest streaming servicehas dropped episodic hints about season 5. In November 2022, Netflix unveiled the title for the forthcoming season’s opening episode, which led me to come up withfour big theories about what season 5’s first episode title could really mean. The addition of the other seven episodic names, though, may make me re-assess what I surmised from episode 1’s title.
Today’s reveals are the most notable morsels of information we’ve received in a while about one of thebest Netflix shows' fifth installment. Indeed, with the wildly successful sci-fi horror drama franchise’s main story wrapping up next year, Netflix is being extremely careful about pulling the curtain back on season 5.
That said, some interesting morsels of information have been teased by those involved in the series and the streamer itself. On July 16,Stranger Things 5’s very first teaser revealed new characters, fan-favorite team-ups, and another time jump, which has been confirmed by the aforementioned late ’80s reveal. Before that behind-the-scenes look at season 5 dropped, we only knew of one new cast addition, too, withTerminator star Linda Hamilton joining theStranger Things 5roster in June 2023. Netflix peak behind the curtain, though, also confirmed Nell Fisher, Alex Breaux, and Jake Connelly were also part of proceedings.
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from the set of ST5 📷 #StrangerThingsDay pic.twitter.com/evRVBmBYzONovember 6, 2024
Meanwhile, two weeks earlier, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin, suggested thatseason 5 will consist of “basically, eight movies”– a statement that implies the forthcoming season’s episodes will be very, very long. It sounds likeStranger Thingsseason 5 will be the show’s deadliest yet, too, althoughEleven actor Millie Bobby Brown has admitted she doesn’t really want her character to dieafter previously joking about such a possibility.
Excited as I and every otherStranger Thingsfan is about all of this news, we’re still no closer to actually seeing some footage to really whip us all into a frenzy. That’s in spite ofhackers claiming they have pirated copies of season 5’s first three episodes, which might have been their way of forcing Netflix to release a teaser trailer earlier than expected. If that was their objective, it didn’t work – Netflix instead choosing to releaseanother behind-the-scenes look at season 5 during Geeked Week 2024that didn’t tell us anything new. The long wait for a proper trailer, then, goes on.
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