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Season 5 – Stranger Things

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Nov 2025

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Mysteries unravel in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s, involving supernatural forces, secret experiments and one strange girl.

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Critics Consensus

Stranger Things plays its cards just right in Season 5, solidifying its pop culture classic status with genuinely captivating genre fare.

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Audience Says

This fifth season of Stranger Things unleashes mind-bending plot twists and throws us back with the pack, delivering a long-awaited payoff that's unlikely to please all fans.

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Nadira Goffe

Slate

Jan 5, 2026

The show probably should have hung up its hat a season or two earlier—but it’s never easy to say goodbye, a sentiment that the Stranger Things finale ultimately proved.

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Justin Clark

Slant Magazine

Jan 3, 2026

2/4

The show's fifth and final season boils down to a series of "Remember when?" moments.

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Judy Berman

TIME Magazine

Dec 30, 2025

Stranger Things has devolved into a joyless, uninspired, unidirectional slog.

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Tina Burke

Mamamia

Sep 30, 2026

If you've found yourself wondering whether this will live up to the expectation, if you've forgotten why you were even so obsessed with this show to begin with, Season 5 of Stranger Things will reel you right back in.

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Rahul Pratyush

The Indian Express

Aug 4, 2026

3/5

By the time Volume 2 closes, Stranger Things hasn’t delivered catharsis but these episodes exist to prepare the ground, emotionally and narratively, for the end.

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Josie Meléndez

Cinemania World Podcast

Jun 23, 2026

3/5

An emotional send-off.

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Elvin J

@RT25371187 2 days ago

I've decided to never come out as gay just because of this season

Tysen Z

@TAZxDEVIL 3 days ago

Wasn’t a bad season but wasn’t either best definitely wasn’t a fan of how they ended it

Howard C

@Howard1234 4 days ago

很令人失誤的最終集在經過了快一年之後還是無法釋懷整個第五季的風格人設跟角色之間的互動都跟以往的風格完全不一樣之前不認識且沒什麼感情的角色戲份大量增加壓榨了核心主角的時間還有最後一集真的拉到不行收得有夠倉促鋪層了這麼久的Vecna跟奪心魔最好是有那麼爛⋯⋯ 不講了要不是最低只有0.5 我會直接給一個0的

Matt D

@RT16349379 6 days ago

Really upset with this season I think all the hype before it made it seem like it would be bigger.

Jaime B

@Jimmy393 Oct 21, 2026

Not as good as the other seasons but the end was perfect

BRADY ANDREW S

@BRADY1169420 Oct 13, 2026

The first few episodes of the season were really fantastic but the grand finale was a let down. The Duffer brothers really screwed up the grand finale with not knowing what happens to Eleven. Thank God Vecna is gone forever may he rot in hell forever.

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Winona Ryder

Joyce Byers

David Harbour

Chief Jim Hopper

Millie Bobby Brown

Eleven

Finn Wolfhard

Mike Wheeler

Gaten Matarazzo

Dustin Henderson

Caleb McLaughlin

Lucas Sinclair

Episode 1

Aired Nov 26, 2025

Chapter One: The Crawl

The gang evades the military to search the Upside Down for Vecna but overlooks a threat closer to home.

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Episode 2

Aired Nov 26, 2025

Chapter Two: The Vanishing of

After a vicious attack at the Wheeler home, Mike and Nancy confront the cost of secrecy, while El and Hopper embark on a rescue mission.

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Episode 3

Aired Nov 26, 2025

Chapter Three: The Turnbow Trap

Will gains unique insight into Vecna's next move, giving the crew an opportunity to set a trap; Holly explores her new surroundings.

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Episode 4

Aired Nov 26, 2025

Chapter Four: Sorcerer

The military tightens its grip on the town as Mike, Lucas and Robin orchestrate a daring escape; El confronts the enemy face to face.

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Episode 5

Aired Dec 25, 2025

Chapter Five: Shock Jock

The gang hatches an electrifying plan to reconnect Will to the hive mind; tensions flare during a search of the Upside Down's Hawkins Lab.

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Episode 6

Aired Dec 25, 2025

Chapter Six: Escape From Camazotz

As Holly and Max fight to escape Vecna's mind, El must find a way into Will's; Joyce wrestles with guilt; Jonathan and Nancy face a turning point.

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Episode 7

Aired Dec 25, 2025

Chapter Seven: The Bridge

On the anniversary of Will's disappearance, the party reunites to prepare for a battle with world-altering implications.

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Episode 8

Aired Dec 31, 2025

Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up

As Vecna prepares to destroy the world as we know it, the party must put everything on the line to defeat him once and for all.

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