Stranger Things
Netflix
As part of Netflix’s big self-congratulatory preview show, TUDUM, the live showcase just revealed the long-awaited release date for Stranger Things season 5, its final season. Or rather release dates, plural.
Netflix has been doing this with all its biggest shows recently, but this time it’s a triple-header. The last break is a bit for suspense rather than anything else, but here’s the list:
- Volume 1: November 26, 5pm PT, 8 PM ET
- Volume 2: Christmas, 5pm PT, 8 PM ET
- The Finale: New Year’s Eve, 5pm PT, 8 PM ET
That release time is simultaneous all over the world so you can translate it into whatever your time zone is. Some of you will have to skip the ball drop, I guess.
Stranger Things season 5 was promised to come out in 2025, and it’s just making it by the skin of its teeth. It is no great shock that it’s broken up. It almost invented this practice when the back end of season 4 was delayed due to apparent VFX-finalizing issues. But then Netflix just started doing it all the time, presumably to keep subscriptions running for two months at least rather than just a binge and dump for a single show. Though lately, they’ve scaled the practice back at least a little bit. But not for Wednesday season 2, and not for Stranger Things’ final season here.
The reveal also came with a new trailer for season 5 which you can check out below:
So I mean, sort of a new trailer. Half of it is flashbacks to old seasons, but there is some initial season 5 footage in there showing a lot of scariness and one very intense line delivery at the end.
It has been a stunning amount of time since Stranger Things season 4 released in May of 2022, so that kind of refresher is warranted (a running TV joke is that all four seasons of The Bear will have come out before Stranger Things season 5 is out). Netflix no doubt expects this to be one of its biggest launches of all time, if not its biggest period, but it may have to dual with Wednesday season 2, and that show is only just getting started.
So, it’s good we have a release date, unsurprising that it’s broken into these pieces and I mean, hey, I’ll be there. It’s been a decade-long ride, so why stop now?
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