Stranger Things Season 5 Trailer Offers Our Best Look Yet at the Series Finale

Stranger Things is coming to an extremity with Season 5, and a caller trailer from Netflix goes heavy into what fans tin expect.

The adjacent three-minute trailer, below, gives america our champion look astatine Season 5. The setup is arsenic follows: with Hawkins nether lockdown, El successful hiding and information lurking astatine each turn, the full enactment unites with a azygous goal: to hunt and termination Vecna.

At agelong last… we tin begin. The trailer for the epic last play of STRANGER THINGS is HERE. pic.twitter.com/5qi9memqSv

— Netflix (@netflix) October 30, 2025

Stranger Things Season 5 debuts connected Netflix successful 3 parts, with the archetypal 4 episodes arriving for the Thanksgiving vacation connected November 26. The adjacent 3 episodes premiere connected Christmas, and the bid finale volition debut connected the streamer and successful implicit 350 theaters nationwide connected New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things Season 5 merchandise dates:

• VOL 1 - November 26, 5pm PT
• VOL 2 - Christmas, 5pm PT
• THE FINALE - New Year’s Eve, 5pm PT

Cocreator and showrunner Ross Duffer has warned fans to spot the Season 5 finale successful theaters lone if they’re chill with crying successful a crowded room. "The finale. Theaters. New Year’s Eve," Duffer wrote successful an Instagram station alongside a photograph of the drafting Lucas and Max utilized to inquire each different connected a day successful Season 4. "This is thing my member and I person dreamed astir for years. If you don’t caput crying successful beforehand of strangers, GO. And if you’re successful LA… possibly we’ll spot you there."

Matt Duffer has said Linda Hamilton's character, Dr. Kay, who we spot concisely successful the caller trailer, is simply a "hyper-intelligent and intimidating" authorities cause hunting down Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven. Meanwhile, Ross Duffer took to Instagram earlier this period to corroborate the runtimes for the premiere episode, “The Crawl,” which volition tally 1 hr and 8 minutes, Episode 2, whose rubric has yet to beryllium announced, which volition tally 54 minutes, Episode 3, titled “The Turnbow Trap,” which volition tally 1 hr and six minutes, and Episode 4, “Sorcerer,” which comes successful astatine 1 hr and 23 minutes.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected Stranger Things Season 5:

The autumn of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are agreed by a azygous goal: find and termination Vecna. But helium has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the authorities has placed the municipality nether subject quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her backmost into hiding. As the day of Will’s disappearance approaches, truthful does a heavy, acquainted dread. The last conflict is looming — and with it, a acheronian much almighty and much deadly than thing they’ve faced before. To extremity this nightmare, they’ll request everyone — the afloat enactment — lasting together, 1 past time.

Netflix besides released a bid of comments from the formed astir wherever their characters are astatine going into Season 5, arsenic good arsenic comments from the Duffers and enforcement shaper Shawn Levy:

“Eleven is successful grooming mode. She's successful a warrior state, which is the archetypal clip you spot Eleven similar that astatine the opening of a season. As for her mindset, each she is reasoning astir is protecting her friends. Her friends are her chosen family, truthful she volition bash immoderate it takes to support them and we're going to spot that.”

- Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven)

“Dustin is benignant of successful a spot of a funk. I deliberation everybody astir apt is considering the authorities that Hawkins is in, and it's getting a small spot harder for the pack to support each the pieces together. We're each dealing with the day-to-day issues of what it is to effort to support everybody harmless and fig retired wherever Vecna is, portion having a batch of unpacked baggage from the events successful the erstwhile season.” - Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin)

“It's ever been successful the opening of a play that everything is each good, but this is the archetypal play we travel into it and the stakes are the aforesaid arsenic wherever we near off. We haven't defeated Vecna and the occupation is inactive there. We're inactive trying to fig it retired and we whitethorn not beryllium capable to fig it out, truthful you consciousness that load connected Lucas arsenic good arsenic everyone other connected the show. Everyone is connected borderline and we’re each conscionable trying to support anticipation alive.” - Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas)

“Will is backmost successful Hawkins this season. He was retired of Hawkins for the past season, truthful present we're seeing the effects of him being backmost successful that realm. We benignant of deed the crushed moving close distant this season, which is truly breathtaking and not however we've started immoderate different season. Everyone is each successful 1 spot and we each person the aforesaid objective.” - Noah Schnapp (Will)

“We [ended] Season 4 successful a pugnacious spot for Max. Her last moments were her successful a infirmary bed. Eleven was searching for her successful the void and couldn't find her, truthful Max is decidedly not the mode she erstwhile was. There’s inactive a tiny glimmer of hope, though, and her friends are hanging connected to that.” - Sadie Sink (Max)

“Mike is backmost successful enactment mode, and he’s benignant of taken it much upon himself to assistance program retired these missions, and helium and the full pack are devoted to uncovering Vecna and ending this.” - Finn Wolfhard (Mike)

“I deliberation what's unsocial astir this play is that it starts a small spot successful chaos due to the fact that our heroes yet mislaid astatine the extremity of Season 4. We usually acceptable up their mean beingness and however they’re going astir school, and past we present the supernatural element. But successful this case, this play is sprinting from the start.” - Ross Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)

“They’re not experiencing mean life. Nothing successful Hawkins is mean anymore…their question is restricted, and determination are Big Brother cameras everywhere. So not lone are they progressive — their everyday, mean lives are thing but.” - Matt Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)

“The enactment is adjacent level, the ocular effects are adjacent level, but I'm besides blessed to accidental that the affectional halfway remains the same. And portion of the magic of this amusement is that adjacent arsenic we evolve, adjacent arsenic the storytelling becomes much epic, it's ever anchored successful these characters that we love.” - Shawn Levy (Executive Producer & Director)

Season 5 arrives implicit 3 years aft the finale of Season 4. For more, cheque retired the burning questions we inactive person from Stranger Things Season 4.

While Stranger Things is coming to an extremity successful presumption of its main Netflix series, there’s plentifulness much from the franchise to look guardant to. Stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow made its Broadway debut successful April, there’s a Stranger Things animated bid that volition instrumentality fans backmost to Hawkins successful 2026, a postulation of books, and the touring Stranger Things Experience.

Image credit: Netflix.

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