Overview
- Co-creator Ross Duffer confirmed the last four episode lengths: Ep. 5 — 1h08m, Ep. 6 — 1h15m, Ep. 7 — 1h06m, Ep. 8 (finale) — 2h08m.
- Episodes 5–7 release December 25 at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, with the finale dropping December 31 at the same time.
- The finale’s runtime increased by three minutes from an earlier Netflix listing, now officially clocking in at 128 minutes.
- Netflix will screen the New Year’s Eve finale in a limited run across 500-plus North American theaters.
- The remaining four episodes total 5h37m, bringing Season 5 to 10h08m overall, after Volume 1 set a debut‑week streaming record of 8.46 billion viewing minutes.