“Stranger Things” Inches Closer to Its Final Farewell as Season 5 Premiere Date Is Revealed

Mark your calendars, because we officially person a premiere day for Stranger Things play 5.

Netflix announced astatine its Tudum 2025 unrecorded arena connected Saturday, May 31, that nan show's last play will aerial successful 3 parts: Volume 1 connected Nov. 26, Volume 2 connected Christmas and nan bid finale connected New Year's Eve.

At nan unrecorded event, Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp shared their favourite memories from nan show and hyped up nan last season, earlier a teaser clip was unveiled, showing each nan play that's to come.

Their co-stars Gaten Matarazzo and Millie Bobby Brown besides made an quality via pre-recorded video messages, expressing their emotion for nan fans who person supported them done nan years.

The streamer announced successful January 2024 that production had begun connected Stranger Things season 5, sharing a black-and-white photograph of nan cast. Co-creator Ross Duffer — one-half of nan Duffer Brothers alongside Matt Duffer — past confirmed successful December of that twelvemonth that production had wrapped.

Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Wolfhard, Brown, Matarazzo, McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke are each group to return for play 5, arsenic good arsenic Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty and Jamie Campbell Bower.

In June 2023, Netflix announced that Terminator prima Linda Hamilton was joining nan cast. Other newcomers see Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux.

A teaser shared successful November 2024 revealed nan titles for each 8 episodes of play 5, ending pinch nan bid finale titled "The Rightside Up." This brings nan show afloat circle, arsenic nan play 1 finale was titled "The Upside Down."

"In nan autumn of 1987, 1 past escapade begins," publication on-screen matter successful nan teaser, revealing a clip jump for nan show aft nan erstwhile play was group successful nan outpouring of 1986.

Hawke told PEOPLE successful June 2024 that filming nan last play had been "heartbreaking" for her.

"I mean, it's nan extremity of a really agelong journey. Longer for immoderate of my castmates, even, than me. It's really sentimental," she said. "We sprout for a agelong time, truthful it's reinvigorating [to bring] nan joyousness and uncovering it mundane and making it new. It's a really nosy point to do."

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While Stranger Things whitethorn beryllium coming to a adjacent connected Netflix, nan communicative lives connected successful Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The play debuted connected London's West End successful 2023 and transferred to Broadway earlier this year.

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Seasons 1-4 of Stranger Things are now streaming connected Netflix, and play 5 measurement 1 premieres connected Nov. 26.