Overview
- Netflix released Season 5 Volume 1 (four episodes) on November 26, with Volume 2 due December 25 and a two-hour finale arriving December 31 on Netflix and in more than 350 theaters.
- Viewer traffic spiked within minutes of the drop, with outage tracker Downdetector logging over 14,000 U.S. problem reports as users tried to stream the opener.
- Millie Bobby Brown told outlets she and David Harbour have a decade-long, protective friendship and that she felt safe on set, as an earlier Daily Mail allegation remains unverified.
- The cast presented a united front at the Los Angeles premiere, and Netflix and principal representatives have not offered substantive public comment on the report.
- Critics offered a range of reactions to Volume 1, and the Duffer brothers teased that Volume 2 will deliver long-promised answers about the Upside Down and key character mysteries.