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Stranger Things Season 5 Trailer Offers Our Best Look Yet at the Series Finale

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Stranger Things is coming to an end with Season 5, and a new trailer from Netflix goes deep into what fans can expect.

The near three-minute trailer, below, gives us our best look at Season 5. The setup is as follows: with Hawkins under lockdown, El in hiding and danger lurking at every turn, the entire party unites with a single goal: to hunt and kill Vecna.

Stranger Things Season 5 debuts on Netflix in three parts, with the first four episodes arriving for the Thanksgiving holiday on November 26. The next three episodes premiere on Christmas, and the series finale will debut on the streamer and in over 350 theaters nationwide on New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things Season 5 release dates:

  • VOL 1 – November 26, 5pm PT
  • VOL 2 – Christmas, 5pm PT
  • THE FINALE – New Year’s Eve, 5pm PT

Cocreator and showrunner Ross Duffer has warned fans to see the Season 5 finale in theaters only if they’re cool with crying in a crowded room. “The finale. Theaters. New Year’s Eve,” Duffer wrote in an Instagram post alongside a photo of the drawing Lucas and Max used to ask each other on a date in Season 4. “This is something my brother and I have dreamed about for years. If you don’t mind crying in front of strangers, GO. And if you’re in LA… maybe we’ll see you there.”

Matt Duffer has said Linda Hamilton’s character, Dr. Kay, who we see briefly in the new trailer, is a “hyper-intelligent and intimidating” government agent hunting down Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven. Meanwhile, Ross Duffer took to Instagram earlier this month to confirm the runtimes for the premiere episode, “The Crawl,” which will run one hour and eight minutes, Episode 2, whose title has yet to be announced, which will run 54 minutes, Episode 3, titled “The Turnbow Trap,” which will run one hour and six minutes, and Episode 4, “Sorcerer,” which comes in at one hour and 23 minutes.

Here’s the official blurb on Stranger Things Season 5:

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.

Netflix also released a series of comments from the cast about where their characters are at going into Season 5, as well as comments from the Duffers and executive producer Shawn Levy:

“Eleven is in training mode. She’s in a warrior state, which is the first time you see Eleven like that at the beginning of a season. As for her mindset, all she is thinking about is protecting her friends. Her friends are her chosen family, so she will do whatever it takes to protect them and we’re going to see that.”

– Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven)

“Dustin is kind of in a bit of a funk. I think everybody probably is considering the state that Hawkins is in, and it’s getting a little bit harder for the gang to keep all the pieces together. We’re all dealing with the day-to-day issues of what it is to try to keep everybody safe and figure out where Vecna is, while having a lot of unpacked baggage from the events in the previous season.” – Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin)

“It’s always been in the beginning of a season that everything is all good, but this is the first season we come into it and the stakes are the same as where we left off. We haven’t defeated Vecna and the problem is still there. We’re still trying to figure it out and we may not be able to figure it out, so you feel that burden on Lucas as well as everyone else on the show. Everyone is on edge and we’re all just trying to keep hope alive.” – Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas)

“Will is back in Hawkins this season. He was out of Hawkins for the last season, so now we’re seeing the effects of him being back in that realm. We kind of hit the ground running right away this season, which is really exciting and not how we’ve started any other season. Everyone is all in one place and we all have the same objective.” – Noah Schnapp (Will)

“We [ended] Season 4 in a tough place for Max. Her final moments were her in a hospital bed. Eleven was searching for her in the void and couldn’t find her, so Max is definitely not the way she once was. There’s still a small glimmer of hope, though, and her friends are hanging on to that.” – Sadie Sink (Max)

“Mike is back in leadership mode, and he’s kind of taken it more upon himself to help plan out these missions, and he and the whole gang are devoted to finding Vecna and ending this.” – Finn Wolfhard (Mike)

“I think what’s unique about this season is that it starts a little bit in chaos because our heroes ultimately lost at the end of Season 4. We usually set up their normal life and how they’re going about school, and then we introduce the supernatural element. But in this case, this season is sprinting from the start.” – Ross Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)

“They’re not experiencing normal life. Nothing in Hawkins is normal anymore…their movement is restricted, and there are Big Brother cameras everywhere. So not only are they active — their everyday, normal lives are anything but.” – Matt Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director)

“The action is next level, the visual effects are next level, but I’m also happy to say that the emotional center remains the same. And part of the magic of this show is that even as we evolve, even as the storytelling becomes more epic, it’s always anchored in these characters that we love.” – Shawn Levy (Executive Producer & Director)

Season 5 arrives over three years after the finale of Season 4. For more, check out the burning questions we still have from Stranger Things Season 4.

While Stranger Things is coming to an end in terms of its main Netflix series, there’s plenty more from the franchise to look forward to. Stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow made its Broadway debut in April, there’s a Stranger Things animated series that will take fans back to Hawkins in 2026, a collection of books, and the touring Stranger Things Experience.

Image credit: Netflix.

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].