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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

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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Jason Clark

Slant Magazine

Jan 3

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

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

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Brian Lowry

Status News

Jan 8

If nothing else, Stranger Things’ operatic exit serves as a reminder familiarity needn’t be a bad thing when executed with such earnest conviction, and that each generation needs -- even deserves -- its own band of heroic nerds to root for.

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Amelia Harvey

Frame Rated

Jan 6

3/5

No matter how weak the dialogue or how many plot holes you encounter, you’ll always go back for more. This is why it’s so disappointing that the show never quite delivers on its promises.

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Jose Cordova

InBetweenDrafts

Jan 5

8/10

Stranger Things 5: Volume 1 hits the type of highs that we know this show can produce and does well enough to deal with the extended absence of the show.

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Cam M.

@RT63045440 2d

Season 1: Awesome introduction Season 2: Very good Season 3: Awesome Season 4: THE BEST Season 5: wtf is this 😭 This is the worst season of any show ive ever watched. I loved this show, until this garbage realesed. Idk what tf the writers were smoking when they thought this was good. 400 million wasted. Had like 100 plot holes left open. The 1 star was for Vecnas preformance.

Asher B.

@SpacemanJoe 4d

Quite the mixed bag. But you guys are being immature with your ratings. If you liked anything in the other seasons this one can’t be a “half star” or “ten years of my life wasted.” That makes no sense. It wasn’t a great ending but it was an ending and it’s an incredible show.

Theodore N

@RT41868089 4d

The beginning is okay. Rest of the season disappointed me. I think the other seasons are good, but season 5 is not scary, and the finale is just really bad. Stranger things 5 is very overrated.

Jack S

@ilikescarymovies 6d

ahhh its so peak absolute cinema

Lennon S

@RT70431792 Apr 7

Stranger things 5 has many problems, and a few dialog issues, but, overall, this still gets 4 stars. Great plot, music, action, ect. Not the best season, though.

vishal A

@RT01168487 Apr 7

Series lost the nostalgia of 80 and just went with gender identity agenda so unnecessary kept pushing alternate narrative season 5 is so bad worst season

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David Harbour

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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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