Stranger Things season 5, the final installment of Netflix’s coming-of-age horror saga, is set to arrive on November 26, 2025. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer have said this chapter will top previous seasons in scale — with larger set pieces, more ambitious visual effects, and a denser narrative.
A featurette released on September 24, 2025, previews the climactic showdown between Hawkins’ surviving heroes and Vecna (portrayed by Jamie Campbell Bower). Most of the scenes were hinted at in a July teaser, but the new clip adds moments such as Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) clutching a walkie outside a house veiled in Upside Down vines and Murray Bauman (Brett Gelman) driving with Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) riding shotgun.
Cast members have echoed the Duffer brothers’ assessment, describing season 5 as the highest-stakes arc yet and noting that nearly every character is pulled fully into the action rather than standing on the sidelines.
Alongside the heightened chaos, the featurette slips in nostalgic, lighter beats — the kids in Ghostbusters costumes and table-top Dungeons & Dragons sessions — while also honoring characters lost in earlier seasons, including Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) and Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery). For more background on those moments, see Polygon’s coverage of the show’s D&D influences and Eddie’s story. Dungeons & Dragons · Eddie Munson.
Stranger Things first premiered in 2016, so the original child actors have grown into adulthood. Winona Ryder reflects in the featurette that watching those performers mature has been one of the series’ greatest rewards — and many viewers are hoping the final season provides a meaningful farewell.
Netflix will release the first four episodes of season 5 on November 26, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. PT. Three additional episodes will arrive on December 25, 2025, and the season finale is scheduled for December 31, 2025.
Source: Polygon
