Season 5 of “Stranger Things” will be its last, but when does the final chapter premiere?
An official release date for season 5 of “Stranger Things” has not been announced. However, the Netflix series is to set to return at some point in 2025. Filming wrapped in December 2024, so a fall 2025 premiere date seems likely.
It’s been almost three years since part 2 of Stranger Things’ fourth season dropped. Season 5’s development faced significant delays due to the 2023 writers’ strike and SAG-AFTRA strike.While season 5 of “Stranger Things” doesn’t have a release date yet, we know the titles of the eight episodes: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of ———,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.”The full title of episode 2 was not revealed so as not to spoil who, or what, vanishes in season 5. The title is a throwback to the first-ever episode of “Stranger Things,” called “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers.”Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Will Hopper), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven/Jane Hopper) 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 Harringon), and Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), are all set to reprise their roles in season 5 of “Stranger Things.”
In March 2023, the official X account for the “Stranger Things” writers’ room tweeted, “Season 5 is like if season 1 and 4 had a baby. And then that baby was injected with steroids.”
Hawke, who joined the “Stranger Things” cast during season 3, said during a June 2025 appearance on the “Podcrushed” podcast that the final season is “basically eight movies,” due to the “very long” episodes.
