Netflix Reveals Behind the Scenes Stranger Things Season 5 Footage in Look Back at the Show

Netflix has revealed down the scenes footage of Stranger Things Season 5 successful a bequest featurette looking backmost connected the show.

The video, below, sees the formed and unit speech enthusiastically astir the upcoming Stranger Things finale, but spliced successful is exclusive caller footage that teases what’s to travel from Season 5. Indeed, Season 5 is described arsenic "the biggest play we've ever had successful presumption of action, successful presumption of ocular effects, successful presumption of story."

— Netflix (@netflix) September 24, 2025

Stranger Things 5, arsenic Netflix calls it, releases connected the streamer crossed 3 premiere dates, with Volume 1 connected November 26 (four episodes), Volume 2 connected Christmas (three episodes), and The Finale connected New Year’s Eve. Each measurement releases astatine 5pm PT.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected Stranger Things Season 5:

The autumn of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are agreed by a azygous goal: find and termination Vecna. But helium has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the authorities has placed the municipality nether subject quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her backmost into hiding. As the day of Will’s disappearance approaches, truthful does a heavy, acquainted dread. The last conflict is looming — and with it, a acheronian much almighty and much deadly than thing they’ve faced before. To extremity this nightmare, they’ll request everyone — the afloat enactment — lasting together, 1 past time.

Stranger Things 5 merchandise schedule:

• Volume 1: November 26, 2025 @ 5pm PT
• Volume 2: December 25, 2025 @ 5pm PT
• The Finale: December 31, 2025 @ 5pm PT

The show’s beloved formed returns for Season 5, with Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, David Harbour, Wynona Ryder, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, and Caleb McLaughlin each getting backmost successful the saddle alongside a fewer caller faces. The astir notable newbie is Terminator prima Linda Hamilton, Sarah Connor herself, and there's a little look astatine her quality successful enactment successful the caller BTS footage.

Maya Hawke, who plays Robin Buckley successful Stranger Things, revealed during an occurrence of Podcrushed past twelvemonth that Season 5 volition beryllium "basically 8 movies" with "very long" episodes, portion Finn Wolfhard told Collider successful January that "not each occurrence is similar a full-blown movie, but determination are decidedly immoderate episodes this twelvemonth that the runtime is decidedly film-length."

Terminator prima Linda Hamilton is successful Stranger Things Season 5. Image credit: Netflix.

Netflix antecedently revealed the occurrence titles of Stranger Things Season 5, which arrives implicit 3 years aft the finale of Season 4. For more, cheque retired the burning questions we inactive person from Stranger Things Season 4.

While Stranger Things is coming to an extremity successful presumption of its main Netflix series, there’s plentifulness much from the franchise to look guardant to. Stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow made its Broadway debut successful April, there’s a Stranger Things animated bid that volition instrumentality fans backmost to Hawkins successful 2026, a postulation of books, and the touring Stranger Things Experience.

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