Overview

• Netflix released a behind-the-scenes featurette with cast and creators that teases the show’s largest scale yet and includes brief new Season 5 footage.
• The eight-episode finale arrives in three drops: Volume 1 on November 26 (four episodes), Volume 2 on December 25 (three episodes), and the series finale on December 31, with releases at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
• An official logline sets the story in fall 1987 with Hawkins scarred by Rifts, the town under military quarantine, Eleven hunted, and a vanished Vecna as the group unites to find and kill him.
• Matt and Ross Duffer say characters are in “mission mode” from episode 1, call posted finale runtimes inaccurate, and note that episodes 4 and 8 are “like movies.”
• Post-production continues with the creators acknowledging a brief delay on finale editing, as Netflix launches a full-series rewatch starting September 29 across Stranger Things channels and Tudum.