Overview

• Netflix released the inaugural Season 5 teaser trailer on July 16, showing the story resuming in fall 1987 as rifts to the Upside Down threaten Hawkins
• The new poster, captioned “One last adventure begins,” depicts Vecna’s looming face above the Hawkins crew on their bikes
• Season 5 will arrive in three holiday volumes with four episodes on November 26, three on December 25 and the finale on December 31
• The teaser confirms the return of the core ensemble alongside new cast member Linda Hamilton and depicts Max Mayfield still in a coma at the season’s start
• A standout sequence shows the Hawkins team harnessing radio waves to generate controlled fire in their plan to destroy Vecna and seal the Upside Down