The Hawkins Crew Prepares for Battle in ‘Stranger Things 5’ Season Teaser

David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Maya Hawke, and Jamie Campbell Bower all reprise their roles for the fifth and final installment.

It’s the end of an era, and finally, we’ll know what happens to Hawkins, Indiana once and for all. The trailer for the fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” has been unveiled, with more hints as to how the hit Netflix series will conclude.

Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, and more reprise their roles in the ensemble cast for “Stranger Things 5.” The fifth season also welcomes new cast members Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, and Alex Breaux.

The first teaser for “Stranger Things 5,” the final installment of the viral Netflix series, was released during the annual “Stranger Things” Day in honor of the first episode of the series being set on November 6, 1983, titled “The Vanishing of Will Byers.”

Season 5 will take place in 1987 and also has another “Vanishing of” episode, with that character name hidden in the teaser. The Season 5 episodes are as titled: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing Of…,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and the series finale of “The Rightside Up.” In January 2025 at Next on Netflix, the Duffer Brothers previewed footage from the final season, with Ross Duffer calling it the “biggest and most ambitious” yet. Two out of the eight episodes will be directed by “The Shawshank Redemption” filmmaker Frank Darabont, who came out of an 11-year retirement to work on the final season.

The official synopsis of the season reads: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

Created by the Duffer Brothers, “Stranger Things” debuted in July 2016 and became one of Netflix’s most popular television series ever, with its fourth season alone amassing over 140.7 million views globally. The series has garnered more than 70 awards worldwide including Emmys and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and has been nominated for over 230 awards.

Vol. 1 of “Stranger Things 5” debuts on Friday, November 26, with Vol. 2 streaming on Christmas Day and the series finale streaming on New Year’s Eve. Check out the trailer below.