Overview

• Ross Duffer confirmed on Instagram that Chapters One and Two are fully locked, mixed, scored and colored
• The premiere episode, titled “The Crawl,” is billed by its co-creator as the most eventful opener since the show’s 2016 debut
• Chapter Two, “The Vanishing of…,” will feature what Ross Duffer describes as the franchise’s craziest cold open
• The final season is set in fall 1987, with Hawkins under military lockdown and Eleven facing Vecna in the concluding chapter
• Netflix will release the eight feature-length episodes in three volumes on November 26, December 25 and December 31, 2025