Stranger Things season 5 will be released in 2025 – and Netflix has finally lifted the lid some key details about its plot

• Netflix has confirmed Stranger Things play 5 will debut sometime successful 2025
• The streaming elephantine has besides revealed nan last season's 8 section titles
• Stranger Things 5 will beryllium group successful precocious 1987, too

Netflix has officially announced that Stranger Things season 5 will aerial sometime successful 2025 – and confirmed which twelvemonth it'll beryllium group in.

Revealing nan news connected Stranger Things Day – aka November 6, nan in-universe day erstwhile Will Byers went missing successful 1983 – Netflix revealed nan hugely celebrated show will return sometime adjacent year. The streaming titan besides confirmed it'll return spot successful nan autumn of 1987 (that's autumn for non-US readers). Season 5, then, will hap astir 18 months aft Stranger Things play 4's ending.

The streaming elephantine didn't corroborate erstwhile Stranger Things' 5th and last play would really debut but, pinch filming not group to wrap until December, we already knew Stranger Things play 5 wouldn't merchandise successful 2024. Still, it's bully to cognize we won't person to hold until 2026 to watch nan show's 5th season.

These reveals weren't nan only ones that greeted Stranger Things fans during this year's version of nan franchise's yearly celebrations. Netflix besides chose to unveil nan section titles for each of play 5's chapters, which you tin cheque retired below. Let nan instrumentality theorizing astir what they're teasing, particularly section 2's title, commence!

• Episode 1 – The Crawl
• Episode 2 – The Vanishing Of [Redacted]
• Episode 3 – The Turnbow Trap
• Episode 4 – Sorcerer
• Episode 5 – Shock Jock
• Episode 6 – Escape From Camazotz
• Episode 7 – The Bridge
• Episode 8 – The Rightside Up

This isn't nan first clip that nan world's best streaming service has dropped episodic hints astir play 5. In November 2022, Netflix unveiled nan title for nan forthcoming season's opening episode, which led maine to travel up pinch four large theories astir what play 5's first section title could really mean. The summation of nan different 7 episodic names, though, whitethorn make maine re-assess what I surmised from section 1's title.

Today's reveals are nan astir notable morsels of accusation we've received successful a while astir 1 of nan best Netflix shows' 5th installment. Indeed, pinch nan wildly successful sci-fi scary play franchise's main communicative wrapping up adjacent year, Netflix is being highly observant astir pulling nan curtain backmost connected play 5.

That said, immoderate absorbing morsels of accusation person been teased by those progressive successful nan bid and nan streamer itself. On July 16, Stranger Things 5's very first teaser revealed caller characters, fan-favorite team-ups, and different clip jump, which has been confirmed by nan aforementioned precocious '80s reveal. Before that behind-the-scenes look astatine play 5 dropped, we only knew of 1 caller formed addition, too, pinch Terminator prima Linda Hamilton joining nan Stranger Things 5 roster successful June 2023. Netflix highest down nan curtain, though, besides confirmed Nell Fisher, Alex Breaux, and Jake Connelly were besides portion of proceedings.

Meanwhile, 2 weeks earlier, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin, suggested that season 5 will dwell of "basically, 8 movies" – a connection that implies nan forthcoming season's episodes will beryllium very, very long. It sounds for illustration Stranger Things play 5 will beryllium nan show's deadliest yet, too, though Eleven character Millie Bobby Brown has admitted she doesn't really want her characteristic to die aft antecedently joking astir specified a possibility.

Excited arsenic I and each different Stranger Things instrumentality is astir each of this news, we're still nary person to really seeing immoderate footage to really whip america each into a frenzy. That's successful spite of hackers claiming they person pirated copies of play 5's first 3 episodes, which mightiness person been their measurement of forcing Netflix to merchandise a teaser trailer earlier than expected. If that was their objective, it didn't activity – Netflix alternatively choosing to merchandise another behind-the-scenes look astatine play 5 during Geeked Week 2024 that didn't show america thing new. The agelong hold for a due trailer, then, goes on.

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