‘Stranger Things’ Goes Out With a Bang in Final Season Teaser

It’s the fall of 1987 in Hawkins, Indiana, and the Stranger Things crew still have not caught a break. Three years after Stranger Things 4’s summer 2022 two-part release, Netflix has shared the official teaser trailer for Stranger Things 5, the closing chapter of the blockbuster series that began in 2016.

The nearly three-minute-long preview finds the Stranger Things crew preparing for battle while navigating some less-than-ideal circumstances — but when are they not? In one scene, Eddie Munson’s grave has been defaced, and in another, Lucas Sinclair grips Max Mayfield’s hand in the hospital room where she’s still in a coma following Vecna’s attack. Gunfire, explosions, and a flood of tears follow from the tight-knit crew fighting with all they have to come out on top one last time.

Season Five will kick off with Volume One premiering on Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving, followed by Volume Two on Christmas, Dec. 25. The series finale will bring it all to an end on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31. Each episode will arrive at 5 p.m. PST.

Stranger Things 5 wrapped production in December with a reported 650 hours of footage filmed for the final season. The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, have kept details of the last eight episodes guarded, but gave fans a few crumbs to hold them over. Among them were the titles of the episodes.

After opening the series with “The Vanishing of Will Byers,” the showrunners will bring it home with an episode mysteriously titled “The Vanishing Of —,” though the final word has been blurred out. Another nod to the long-running series lore appears in the finale title, “The Rightside Up,” a reference to the alternate dimension known as the Upside Down. David Harbour has called the final episode “the best episode they’ve ever done.”

Other titles include “The Turnbow Trap,” “Shock Jock,” and “Escape From Camazotz.”

“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,” the synopsis continued. “To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

From Rolling Stone US.