Volumes 1 and 2 of Stranger Things Season 5 will be viewable from home for Netflix subscribers. The same is true for the finale episode, but for fans who want the ultimate experience, it has been announced that the last installment will screen in over 350 select theaters nationwide beginning December 31, 2025, and running through January 1, 2026.

With Stranger Things Season 5 just around the corner, here’s our ranking of the best episodes of the Netflix series.

The first full-length trailer for Stranger Things season 5 has dropped, and it might be hiding some secrets about the highly anticipated finale of the Netflix show. The trailer is an action packed affair, setting-up a final showdown with Vecna, as well as a mysterious surge of red energy.

The final season will be released in three separate chunks. Volume 1 will arrive Nov. 26 on Netflix and consist of the first four episodes: "The Crawl" (1 hour, 8 mins.), the still-undisclosed episode 2 (54 mins.), "The Turnbow Trap" (1 hour, 6 mins.), and "Sorcerer" (1 hour, 23 mins.).

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer reveal that Season 5 will answer two key questions that were set up in Season 1.

Ahead of the triple-date release of Stranger Things season 5 this fall, rumors began to circulate that this season was going to be so big that every single one of its episodes was 90 minutes to 2 hours long, a blockbuster movie per entry. Well, not quite.

The Stranger Things 5 trailer is finally here. It arrived a little earlier than fans were expecting after leaking on Twitter the night before Netflix officially

Netflix is doing stranger things lately — and this time it's both literal and figurative. The series finale episode of Stranger Things will officially be shown in movie theaters, a move that goes against the streamer’s well-known ethos.

Posted: November 3, 2025 | Last updated: November 3, 2025