Overview
- Netflix will premiere Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up on December 31 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT with a 2-hour, 5-minute runtime.
- The finale will screen simultaneously in more than 500 theaters, including roughly 200 AMC venues, with additional showings through New Year’s Day.
- The release is global and time-zone synced, reaching much of the world on January 1 (for example, 1 a.m. GMT in the UK and 5 a.m. GST in the UAE).
- Heading into the closer, Season 5 reframes the Upside Down as a wormhole to the Abyss and positions the group’s Operation Beanstalk to confront Vecna.
- Audience pushback has intensified, with a Change.org petition for unseen footage nearing 283,000 signatures, Episode 7 rated the series’ lowest on IMDb, and the season charting around 73% on Rotten Tomatoes.