Overview

• Co-creator Ross Duffer announced on Instagram that Episodes 1 (“The Crawl”) and 2 (“The Vanishing of…”) have been locked, mixed, scored and color-corrected.
• Duffer hailed “The Crawl” as their most eventful first episode since Season 1 and said the second episode features the series’ craziest cold open to date.
• Netflix will roll out Season 5 in three volumes, with four episodes on November 26, 2025, three on December 25 and the finale on December 31.
• Cast members, including David Harbour, have described the production as five times larger than Season 4 after a year-long shoot for eight feature-length episodes.
• The final season reunites the original ensemble as Eleven and her friends face Vecna in expanded realms of the Upside Down.