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Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 5 Chapter Five: Shock Jock

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Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 5

Chapter Five: Shock Jock

Aired Dec 25, 2025

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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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Maggie Fremont

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Dec 29

3/5

It’s true — another episode, another insane plan that only partially works and has dire consequences that will have to be dealt with via … another insane plan.

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Alan French

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Dec 31

6/10

"Shock Jock" mostly works as a placeholder episode for "Stranger Things." While we finally got a few relationship blow ups, there’s not much that needs to be remembered here.

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Randy Dankievitch

Processed Media

Dec 26

B-

..."Chapter Five: Shock Jock" is able to deliver just enough haunting images and powerful moments to keep the episode from floating completely adrift amongst its many, many interlocking and overlapping plot details.

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Kara Hedash

Screen Rant

Dec 26

7/10

The Duffer Brothers have already taken big swings in Stranger Things season 5, and the show only gets more intense in Volume 2 as time continues to run out for the Hawkins crew in Volume 2.

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Lyra Hale

Fangirlish

Dec 26

A

The entirety of [..] "Shock Jock" you're holding your breath because there's this creeping sensation that someone is going to die. And it's the best kind of TV.

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Synopsis

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.

Executive Producer: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen
Network: Netflix
Rating: TV-14
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Dec 25, 2025

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