Overview
- Netflix is releasing the eight-episode final season in three parts, with reports listing the finale as dropping on either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day depending on territory.
- Volume 1 spans episodes 1–4 and debuts late November, followed by Volume 2 with episodes 5–7 on Boxing Day, with episode 8 capped as a feature-length closer in the final drop.
- Matt Duffer says the season includes the show’s most shocking death, noting the team avoided gratuitous violence despite at least one particularly violent scene.
- Netflix has issued a preview of the opening five minutes focused on Will Byers, as marketing ramps up days before release.
- The core cast returns alongside newcomers including Linda Hamilton, with Amybeth McNulty elevated to the main ensemble, and the story is set in fall 1987 with the group preparing to confront Vecna.