Stranger Things: Everything we know about season five as release date and cast announced
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Netflix confirms Stranger Things season five release schedule
- Netflix announced that the fifth and final season of Stranger Things will be released in three parts.
- Volume one, consisting of four episodes, will be available on November 26; volume two, with three episodes, will be released on Christmas Day; and the finale, titled “The Rightside Up,” will be shared on New Year’s Eve.
- The season takes place in the fall of 1987, with the characters uniting to find and kill Vecna while the government quarantines Hawkins and hunts for Eleven.
- The final season will see the return of cast members including Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and others.
- Finn Wolfhard expressed mixed emotions about his character's ending, describing the filming of the finale as feeling like a dream and praising the cast for staying together until the last day.