Season 5 of “Stranger Things” will be its final season, set to premiere on Netflix in 2025, likely in the fall after filming wraps in December 2024. The season faced delays from the 2023 writers’ and SAG-AFTRA strikes. While the release date remains unannounced, the titles of the eight episodes have been revealed, including “The Crawl” and “The Vanishing of ———,” a nod to the series’ first episode. Main cast members will reprise their roles, and creator comments suggest that this season combines elements of the first and fourth seasons, featuring exceptionally lengthy episodes.
The fifth season of “Stranger Things” will be its final season, but when is the premiere of this concluding chapter?
The specific release date for season 5 of “Stranger Things” has yet to be announced. Nonetheless, the Netflix series is expected to return sometime in 2025. Filming concluded in December 2024, making a fall 2025 premiere quite plausible.
It’s been nearly three years since part 2 of the fourth season of Stranger Things was released. The development of season 5 encountered substantial delays due to the 2023 writers’ strike as well as the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Although season 5 of “Stranger Things” does not have an official release date yet, we do know the titles of its eight episodes: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of ———,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”
The complete title of the second episode was withheld to avoid revealing who or what disappears in season 5. This title harkens back to the very first episode of “Stranger Things,” titled “Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers.”
Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim 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 Harrington), and Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley) are all returning for 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 cast during season 3, mentioned in a June 2025 episode of the “Podcrushed” podcast that the final season essentially consists of “eight movies” due to the length of the episodes.
Seasons 1-4 of “Stranger Things” are available for streaming on Netflix.
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