Ten years after viewers first visited the small town of Hawkins, Indiana, we’re returning one last time for the highly anticipated, years-in-the-making Stranger Things season 5.
We’ve been waiting for this final season for awhile — more than three years, to be exact. In 2022, the Duffer brothers, creators of the series, said that Stranger Things season 5 would be the final chapter of the Stranger Things story. “Seven years ago, we planned out the complete story arc for Stranger Things,” they wrote in a letter to fans. “At the time, we predicted the story would last four or five seasons. It proved too large to tell in four, but — as you’ll soon see for yourselves — we are now hurtling toward our finale. Season 4 will be the penultimate season; season 5 will be the last.”
The show instantly became a cultural phenomenon with its first season and has introduced the Upside Down, Vecna, and the Demagorgon into our daily lexicon. It has also been a launchpad for young actors, many of whom were little kids during the first season and are now in their twenties. This season, there are a few new characters and actors joining the lineup, and many returning faces who will close out their characters’ journeys in eight episodes.
While we don’t know what’s to come in season 5 — the first four episodes premiere on November 26, with the others dropping on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day — we do know that you’ll want to keep the tissues handy. Multiple cast members have shared that they were in tears reading the final script, and even some Netflix execs got misty about it.
Ahead, learn more about the younger main cast of Stranger Things season five, including a few new faces showing up in Hawkins this season.
Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven
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