Stranger Things 5 is almost here, and we cannot wait.
The previous season, Stranger Things 4 – the dropping of which back in 2022 feels like light-years ago – left things for our Hawkins party on a serious, ominous note. Sadie Sink’s Max is in a coma after her body and mind are taken over and snapped by evil Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), her (temporary) death opening up a final portal between the Earth and the Upside Down that creates a huge rupture between the two worlds.
And now, we return to Hawkins to see how everyone’s doing. Will Max wake up? Will Vecna return and take over the world?
The synopsis for Stranger Things 5 reads as follows: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins, Indiana, is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: to 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 (Millie Bobby Brown), forcing her back into hiding.
“As the anniversary of Will’s (Noah Schnapp) 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.”
Here’s everything we know about the Stranger Things 5 episodes, including how many there are, when they will drop and how long they will be.
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How many episodes are in Stranger Things 5?
In total, there will be 9 episodes, with 4 dropping on 27 November, 3 dropping on Christmas Day and one finale episode dropping on New Years Day at 1am. We know what we’re doing on the 1st January 2026.
Stranger Things 5 episode schedule
Volume 1 will drop on Thursday 27 November at 1am GMT, which will contain the following episodes:
- Episode 1: Chapter One: The Crawl
- Episode 2: The Vanishing of [REDACTED] — In the interest of avoiding spoilers, we have redacted who goes missing for now.
- Episode 3: Chapter Three: The Turnbow Trap
- Episode 4: Chapter Four: Sorcerer