STRANGER THINGS: Netflix Announces Premiere Dates for Epic Final Season
Highlights Tudum 2025 unveiled a slew of Netflix-related goodies, including new info regarding Stranger Things Season 5.
Stranger Things We now have three premiere dates for the highly anticipated final season.
Additionally, Netflix shared a teaser trailer, which you can watch below. Stranger Things Season 5
Get ready for one final battle. Tudum 2025 is here, and with it comes a slew of Netflix-related goodies. Three years after Season 4 debuted on the streamer, we now have the official premiere dates — yes, plural — for Stranger Things Season 5. In addition, we have a new teaser trailer to give us a taste of what we can expect in the highly anticipated final season.
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Here's a synopsis per Netflix:
'The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
As the anniversary of Will's disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they've faced before. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.' The Cast and Crew
The new season stars Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), Priah Ferguson (Erica Sinclair), Brett Gelman (Murray), Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna), Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler), Amybeth McNulty (Vickie), Nell Fisher (Holly Wheeler), Jake Connelly (Derek Turnbow), Alex Breaux (Lt. Akers) and Linda Hamilton (Dr. Kay).
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Stranger Things hails from The Duffer Brothers, who executive produce under their Upside Down Pictures banner alongside Shawn Levy of 21 Laps Entertainment.
Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 premieres on Netflix on November 26, 2025, with four episodes. Volume 2 debuts on Christmas Day with three episodes. Lastly, Volume 3 will take the world by storm on New Year's Eve with the finale episode. Expect each volume to release at 5 pm PST on the platform.
Before you go, check out the teaser trailer below.
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