The streaming era is seeing one of its most popular Netflix shows coming to an end, as the “Stranger Things” fifth and final season is set to debut on November 26, 2025. However, the season will be split into three volumes, with the second part launching at Christmas 2025 and the finale launching on New Year’s Eve.
A mix of both returning and new cast members assembled by The Duffer Brothers for Season 5 of “Stranger Things” will include Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Cara Buono, Joe Keery, Amybeth McNulty, Charlie Heaton, Brett Gelman, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer, Jamie Campbell Bower, Priah Ferguson, Linda Hamilton, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, and Sadie Sink.
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Netflix‘s basic synopsis for the show:
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
There is an expectation that we are going to see some mega-level VFX and set pieces in these final eight episodes, as they’ve been hyped up as features in a TV show format, which is quite the ambitious way to finish off with a big bang.
We’re still quite interested to see what the Duffer Brothers tackle next besides their retirement community Netflix series follow-up “The Boroughs,“ and their other project “Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen” as we’re sure they’ve been getting offers from all over Hollywood since the first season of “Stranger Things” from 2016.
Still, wild to think that it has been a decade since cameras first rolled on the genre-bending series homaging the works of Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, and Joe Dante. It is easily one of the first streaming shows to push Netflix into the stratosphere as a place for must-watch originals. The creative sibling pair will likely have plenty of studio offers to mull over once they take a much-deserved break.
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The end of an era for many, including the young cast who have now matured into young adults in their early 20s. However, this won’t be the end of “Stranger Things,” completely, as an animated spinoff series is in the works titled “Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” from showrunner Eric Robles.