Overview
- Netflix released three new episodes on December 25, continuing the penultimate chapter of the final season.
- The series finale is scheduled for December 31 at 8 p.m. ET, with Netflix and the creators positioning it as a feature-length capstone.
- Coverage highlights significant story-world shifts and a consolidation of the ensemble that raises the stakes for the last battle without resolving key questions.
- Will Byers features in an extended, long-planned scene the Duffer Brothers say they wrote carefully for actor Noah Schnapp and that took the longest of the series to craft.
- There have been no major character deaths so far in Season 5, though the creators have suggested the finale could include fatalities.