Stranger Things: everything we know about season 5 – cast, release date, episode titles

Stranger Things is simply a bona fide ratings smash. The Duffer Brothers’ show, which started beingness arsenic a 1980s sci-fi homage, has go a worldwide sensation since it archetypal aired successful 2016.

It is present a monolithic franchise that has spawned countless spinoffs, including a West End amusement and a unrecorded immersive experience. In 2022, play 4 was the most-watched amusement of the full twelvemonth crossed each streamers. And present (after a two-year wait), play 5 is finally.

With anticipation starting to physique erstwhile more, here’s what we cognize astir our upcoming instrumentality to Hawkins.

Sadly, yes. Back successful February 2022, the Duffer Brothers released a missive up of the play 4 premiere cofirming the news.

"Seven years ago, we planned retired the implicit communicative arc for Stranger Things," the duo wrote successful their letter. "At the time, we predicted the communicative would past 4 oregon 5 seasons. It proved excessively ample to archer successful four, but — arsenic you'll soon spot for yourselves — we are present hurtling toward our finale. Season 4 volition beryllium the penultimate season; play 5 volition beryllium the last."

“With 9 scripts, implicit 800 pages, astir 2 years of filming, thousands of ocular effects shots, and a runtime astir doubly the magnitude of immoderate erstwhile season, Stranger Things 4 was the astir challenging play yet, but besides the astir rewarding one.”

From the looks of it, the full pack is backmost for much – minus Joseph Quinn, whose play 4 quality Eddie tragically died successful the Upside Down.

Those would beryllium Millie Bobby Brown, whose quality El volition apt beryllium dealing with the fallout of failing to prevention her person Max from being tortured by Vecna.

She’ll beryllium accompanied by Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo arsenic Mike, Will, Lucas and Dustin.

And successful presumption of the adults, there’ll besides beryllium Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, and Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton – and David Harbour and Winona Ryder volition beryllium rounding things retired arsenic Police main Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers, Will’s mother.

We don’t cognize much, though of people the amusement is acceptable to travel up connected the monolithic play 4 cliffhanger.

That cliffhanger saw Max (Sadie Sink) astir killed by the villainous Vecna, and the Upside Down interruption done into the satellite of Hawkins. The last representation we were near with was of the municipality connected fire, and monolithic crevasses opening successful the ground.

In a caption posted alongside the occurrence titles, Netflix teased that the amusement would beryllium acceptable “In the autumn of 1987, 1 past escapade begins." That would mean an 18-month clip leap betwixt the play 4 finale and opening of play five.

Plenty of clip for a full batch much chaos to unfold, and we’re assuming that the bulk of play 5 volition absorption connected the gangs’ attempts to enactment the Upside Down backmost wherever it belongs, and banish Vecna and the demogorgons erstwhile and for all.

Of sorts: a trailer containing the series’ occurrence titles dropped this week. Find it astatine the apical of the page.

We bash cognize the occurrence titles for the caller series, which Netflix dropped this week. These are:

The Vanishing of... (the sanction is pixellated retired successful the trailer... who’s going to vanish? We’re not definite yet)

The finale volition beryllium called The Rightside Up – a callback to the play 1 finale named The Upside Down.

Though we haven’t been fixed a factual day yet, the amusement is acceptable to merchandise successful 2025, apt successful the archetypal fractional of adjacent year. Keep your eyes peeled!