Spoiler Warning: Major spoilers from the last season of Stranger Things are featured throughout this article, so please proceed at your own risk.
Guys, Stranger Things Season 5 is officially coming back as part of the 2025 TV premiere schedule, and I literally could not be more excited.
It’s been three years since the finale of Season 4, and while we’ve been anxiously awaiting the return of Vecna and the whole gang, we’ve also been getting updates consistently on filming, trailers, and more. Here is what we know so far.
What Is The The Stranger Things Season 5 Premiere Date?
It’s official – we finally have a release schedule for Stranger Things Season 5. Here is how it’s going to go down, according to Netflix Tudum:
- November 26th: The first four episodes.
- December 25th: The next three episodes.
- December 31st: The finale.
I know, I know – I’m sure many of us are tired of this type of release schedule, but hey, it’s the last time we’re ever going to get new episodes of the show, and this can make us even more excited for the holidays.
Check Out The Teaser Trailer For Stranger Things Season 5
This is NOT a drill, nerds. The teaser trailer for Stranger Things Season 5 has finally dropped, and we are so here for it. It features all the characters that we know and love in one last epic fight against Vecna – and features some new characters as well. Check it out above.
The Stranger Things Season 5 Cast
The cast for Stranger Things Season 5 is as follows:
- 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)
We also know from Netflix that new cast member, Linda Hamilton, will play someone named Dr. Kay. Who that is in the grand scheme of the show, I’m not sure, but we’ll find out soon enough.
What Stranger Things Season 5 Will Be About
Praise Vecna (but not seriously, though), because we FINALLY have more details about the Stranger Things Season 5 story, thanks to that Tudum article above. Here is what Season 5 will be about.
When “the fall of 1987” happens, there are rifts that open in Hawkins, and the characters we all know and love are united to try to find and kill Vecna, but he vanishes without a trace. The military places Hawkins in quarantine and continues to hunt down Eleven, causing her to go back into hiding, but as the anniversary of Will’s disappearance looms closer, a certain darkness returns and a battle is brewing, one that is going to require everyone to stand together in an epic fight.
So, now I’m just even more excited and need November to come right now. With this, we also know that they’re going to dive deeper into the Upside Down (thanks to another Tudum article in July 2025), and even more lore will be exposed as we close out this epic story.
Season 5 Will Only Take Place In Hawkins
Don’t expect to go anywhere new this time around. It’s been reported that Season 5 will only take place in Hawkins, as reported by Matt Duffer in an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast in July 2022, where he confirmed the plan was for Season 5 be set back where we’re familiar:
That’s what we anticipate and hope to do, which is to just to keep it contained in Hawkins. It’s going to feel a lot larger in scale than Season 1. We want to go back to a lot of things we did in Season 1 and a lot of the original groupings and pairings we had in Season 1.
Considering the premise, I’m fine with that – let’s finish this off where it all started.
We Know The Episode Titles For Season 5
During Stranger Things Day, Netflix revealed the titles for the upcoming season, which are below:
- The Crawl
- The Vanishing of [Redacted]
- The Turnbow Trap
- Sorcerer
- Shock Jock
- Escape From Camazotz
- The Bridge
- The Rightside Up
Um, I’m sorry, who is vanishing? Is “Sorcerer” about Will because he was always the sorcerer in the D and D group? I’m so interested.
Stranger Things Season 5 Episodes Won’t Be As Long As Season 4
Although each episode featured in Stranger Things Season 4 was over an hour long (and the finale clocked in at a little under two-and-a-half hours), it doesn't sound like we should expect to see too many chapters running that long when the show’s fifth season premieres in the future.
During a July 2022 appearance on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast , co-creator Matt Duffer explained that the reason the Season 4 episodes were so long was because there was so much character set-up required, a level of exposition that really won’t be all that necessary in Season 5.
Ugh, this all makes me so excited. There are so many great shows to binge on Netflix but I know I’m going to keep thinking about Season 5 until it comes out. I need November here, like, yesterday. It’s time to rewatch.
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