Stranger Things 5 Returns To Hawkins One Last Time As The First Five Minutes Of The Final Season is Released
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Carl Roberts 
Stranger Things 5 is on the horizon and will premiere in three parts! The hit Netflix show reveals the first five minutes from the Upside Down.
Stranger Things is coming to an end. The hit Netflix series will end all things strange when it premieres the first part of its fifth and final season in November. It will be released in three parts: Volume 1 on November 27, Volume 2 on December 26, and the finale on January 1. This will be the perfect way to begin 2026!
Episodes will be released at 1:00 AM UK time. For the US, Volume 1 will release on November 26, Volume 2 on December 25, and the finale on December 31 at 5:00 PM PST. Volume 1 consists of four episodes, while Volume 2 comprises three episodes. After the debut of the character posters, Netflix has released the first five minutes from The Upside Down. Get ready for one last adventure as the end of Stranger Things begins.
SYNOPSIS
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. 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.
Stranger Things 5 will release on Netflix across three premiere dates with Volume 1 on 27th November (four episodes), Volume 2 on Boxing Day (three episodes) and The Finale on New Year’s Day. Each volume releases at 1 AM GMT.
CREDITS
Created by The Duffer Brothers. STRANGER THINGS is produced by Upside Down Pictures & 21 Laps Entertainment with The Duffer Brothers serving as executive producers. Alongside Shawn Levy of 21 Laps Entertainment and Dan Cohen
The cast includes 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), and Linda Hamilton (Dr. Kay).
QUOTES FROM THE CAST
“This season we are going right into it and Eleven is in training mode. She’s in a warrior state, which is the first time you see Eleven like that at the beginning of a season. As for her mindset, all she is thinking about is protecting her friends. Her friends are her chosen family, so she will do whatever it takes to protect them and we’re going to see that.”
– Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven)
“Dustin is kind of in a bit of a funk. I think everybody probably is considering the state that Hawkins is in, and it’s getting a little bit harder for the gang to keep all the pieces together. We’re all dealing with the day-to-day issues of what it is to try to keep everybody safe and figure out where Vecna is, while having a lot of unpacked baggage from the events in the previous season.”
– Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin)
“It’s always been in the beginning of a season that everything is all good, but this is the first season we come into it and the stakes are the same as where we left off. We haven’t defeated Vecna and the problem is still there. We’re still trying to figure it out and we may not be able to figure it out, so you feel that burden on Lucas as well as everyone else on the show. Everyone is on edge and we’re all just trying to keep hope alive.”
– Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas)
“Will is back in Hawkins this season. He was out of Hawkins for the last season, so now we’re seeing the effects of him being back in that realm. We kind of hit the ground running right away this season, which is really exciting and not how we’ve started any other season. Everyone is all in one place and we all have the same objective.”
– Noah Schnapp (Will)
“We left off Season 4 in a tough place for Max. Her final moments were her in a hospital bed. Eleven was searching for her in the void and couldn’t find her, so Max is definitely not the way she once was. There’s still a small glimmer of hope, though, and her friends are hanging on to that.”
– Sadie Sink (Max)
“Mike is back in leadership mode, and he’s kind of taken it more upon himself to help plan out these missions, and he and the whole gang are devoted to finding Vecna and ending this.”
– Finn Wolfhard (Mike)
QUOTES FROM THE CREATORS
“I think what’s unique about this season is that it starts a little bit in chaos because our heroes ultimately lost at the end of Season 4. We usually set up their normal life and how they’re going about school, and then we introduce the supernatural element. But in this case, this season is sprinting from the start.”
– Ross Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)
“They’re not experiencing normal life. Nothing in Hawkins is normal anymore…their movement is restricted, and there are Big Brother cameras everywhere. So not only are they active — their everyday, normal lives are anything but.”
– Matt Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)
“The action is next level, the visual effects are next level, but I’m also happy to say that the emotional centre remains the same. And part of the magic of this show is that even as we evolve, even as the storytelling becomes more epic, it’s always anchored in these characters that we love.”
– Shawn Levy (Executive Producer & Director)
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