Overview
- Matt and Ross Duffer said they blocked the Broadway producers from including material that would spoil key season 5 revelations.
- The final season will revisit the prequel’s 1959 timeline while delving even further into Henry Creel’s origins.
- Story-wise, season 5 picks up in fall 1987 with Hawkins under military occupation, Eleven in hiding, and the group actively hunting Vecna.
- Netflix set a three-part release: four episodes on November 26, three on December 25, and a two-hour finale streaming and in select North American theaters on December 31.
- Stranger Things: The First Shadow, produced by Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions, continues its award-recognized run as a standalone prequel that the Duffers describe as connective tissue rather than required viewing.