Overview
- Netflix’s official X handle announced the first Season 5 teaser will premiere on July 16 across YouTube and the series’ social channels.
- The eight-episode final season will stream in three volumes at 5 p.m. PST: four episodes on Nov. 26, three on Dec. 25 and the series finale on Dec. 31, 2025.
- A newly revealed poster shows Vecna’s ominous visage looming over a burning Hawkins, Indiana, underlining the high stakes of the coming showdown.
- Season 5 is set in fall 1987 with the town under military quarantine and open rifts to the Upside Down as Eleven and her friends prepare for their last battle.
- After pandemic and strike delays, the full core cast returns alongside Terminator star Linda Hamilton to bring the saga to its conclusion.