Season Page

Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 8 Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up

Play trailer

Stranger Things – Season 5, Episode 8

Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up

Aired Dec 31, 2025

Drama

Sci-Fi

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Play Trailer

Watchlist

Watchlist

Tomatometer

Popcornmeter

82%

Tomatometer

17 Reviews

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.

Watch on Netflix

Stream Now

Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures

%

%

Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures

Watchlist

The Journalist

100%

88%

The Journalist

Watchlist

TRAILER

for The Journalist

Ginny & Georgia

67%

77%

Ginny & Georgia

Watchlist

TRAILER

for Ginny & Georgia

Northern Rescue

%

90%

Northern Rescue

Watchlist

Resurrection: Ertugrul

%

92%

Resurrection: Ertugrul

Watchlist

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

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

View more photos

Linda Holmes

Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast)

Jan 8

The whole thing felt to me like an exercise in trying to have it both ways and all ways. And that epilogue to me, honestly, felt like a 90210 episode.

Go to Full Review

Peter Travers

The Travers Take

Jan 2

2.5/4

No matter how much their series stumbles, blunders and lurches to a foregone, overextended conclusion, these now grown-up Hawkins kids will always have a place in our hearts, starting with the immortal Millie Bobby Brown

Go to Full Review

Karl Quinn

The Age (Australia)

Jan 2

4.5/5

...the Duffer Brothers stamped their very personal mark on things, to ensure that finally Stranger Things should stand the test of time as something more than a masterful act of pastiche. Well played.

Go to Full Review

Ronald Young Jr.

Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast)

Jan 8

...when it got to the end, it felt like this whole season was more about saying goodbye to Stranger Things, the show, than it was about closing out the story well.

Go to Full Review

Tim Stevens

The Spool

Jan 7

As my reviews of the show have returned to again and again, the show gets its characters and understands the emotional touchpoints of both.

Go to Full Review

Natalia Marcos

El Pais (Spain)

Jan 2

It's also impossible to deny that when Stranger Things goes into entertainment mode, it works. It's given us the fun we wanted and needed, and this final episode was a spectacle as well. [Full review in Spanish]

Go to Full Review

Read all reviews

Synopsis

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.

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 31, 2025

More Top TV Picks Netflix