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‘Stranger Things' Season 5 Reveals Holidays-Based Release Schedule
Stranger Things revealed its fifth and final season's release schedule Saturday during Netflix's Tudum event, with the last eight episodes arriving in three installments around major holidays.
The fifth season's Volume One premieres on November 26, the day before Thanksgiving, followed by Volume Two on Christmas, December 25. The series will end with The Finale, set for New Year's Eve, December 31.
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All three parts will hit the streaming service 'worldwide all at once, date may vary based on your local timezone,' anchored to 5 p.m. PST.
Netflix also shared a teaser for Season 5, featuring footage of the Hawkins crew's journey thus far:
Stranger Things 5 arrives three years after Stranger Things 4's summer 2022 two-part release, and over a year 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 Things was called 'The Vanishing of Will Byers'), 'The Turnbow Trap,' 'Sorcerer,' 'Shock Jock,' 'Escape From Camazotz,' 'The Bridge' and the finale 'The Rightside Up.'
The fifth season also comes 11 months after Stranger Things wrapped production, filming a reported 650 hours of footage for the final season. While the show's creators Matt and Ross Duffer have kept the final season's plot guarded, they did reveal that the fifth season picks up in the fall of 1987, well after the events of Season Four, which began in the spring of 1986.
'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,' Netflix previously teased.
'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.'
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