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Stranger Things’ Season 5 Debuts Wednesday as Netflix Drops Final Trailer and Sets Holiday Rollout

Netflix is staging a three-part holiday rollout capped by a limited theatrical finale to encourage shared viewing.

Overview

  • Volume 1 (episodes 1–4) premieres November 26 at 8 p.m. ET, Volume 2 (episodes 5–7) arrives December 25 at 8 p.m. ET, and the series finale (episode 8) lands December 31 at 8 p.m. ET.
  • Season 5 totals eight episodes with confirmed titles including The Crawl, The Turnbow Trap, Sorcerer, Shock Jock, Escape from Camazotz, The Bridge and The Rightside Up, with Episode 2’s full title withheld.
  • The new trailer previews a rift-scarred, militarized Hawkins with Demogorgons on the loose and the group preparing to confront Vecna, without revealing major plot points.
  • The official synopsis places the story in fall 1987 with Hawkins under military quarantine, the heroes united to find and kill Vecna, and Eleven forced back into hiding.
  • The finale, The Rightside Up, will screen in more than 350 theaters in the U.S. and Canada starting at the same time it streams on Netflix.