Stranger Issues
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Stranger Things revealed its fifth and ultimate season’s launch schedule Saturday throughout Netflix’s Tudum occasion, with the final eight episodes arriving in three installments round main holidays.
The fifth season’s Quantity One premieres on November 26, the day earlier than Thanksgiving, adopted by Quantity Two on Christmas, December 25. The collection will finish with The Finale, set for New Yr’s Eve, December 31.
All three elements will hit the streaming service “worldwide unexpectedly, date could differ primarily based in your native timezone,” anchored to five p.m. PST.
Netflix additionally shared a teaser for Season 5, that includes footage of the Hawkins crew’s journey to date:
Stranger Issues 5 arrives three years after Stranger Issues 4’s summer season 2022 two-part launch, and over a yr after Netflix first revealed the titles for the fifth season’s episode: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of [name was censored]” (the first-ever episode of Stranger Issues was known as “The Vanishing of Will Byers”), “The Turnbow Lure,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and the finale “The Rightside Up.”
The fifth season additionally comes 11 months after Stranger Issues wrapped production, filming a reported 650 hours of footage for the ultimate season. Whereas the present’s creators Matt and Ross Duffer have stored the ultimate season’s plot guarded, they did reveal that the fifth season picks up within the fall of 1987, effectively after the occasions of Season 4, which started within the spring of 1986.
“The autumn of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single objective: discover and kill Vecna. However he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown,” Netflix beforehand teased.
“Complicating their mission, the federal government has positioned the city underneath navy quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her again into hiding. Because the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, acquainted dread. The ultimate battle is looming — and with it, a darkness extra highly effective and extra lethal than something they’ve confronted earlier than. To finish this nightmare, they’ll want everybody — the total occasion — standing collectively, one final time.”
From Rolling Stone US.