- Netflix has confirmed stranger things season 5 has finished production
- The filming of the final episode of the popular program has lasted an entire year
- Netflix has also announced that it will arrive sometime in 2025.
It’s official: stranger things Season 5’s mammoth, year-long filming schedule has wrapped. In even more celebratory news, Netflix has confirmed that one of its iconic TV originals will return sometime in 2025.
Okay, we already knew that. stranger things‘The last installment would air next year. In fact, on November 6, also known as Stranger Things Day, Netflix revealed that the fifth and final chapter of the flagship show would debut in 2025. However, it’s a pleasure to see Netflix doubling down on its commitment to releasing stranger things season 5 sometime in the next 12 months. Hey, making TV shows is hard, so there’s never a guarantee that the next season of a series will be released when people say it will.
That’s a summary of stranger things. See you in 2025. pic.twitter.com/DWkIwMMOJ3December 20, 2024
To commemorate the end of principal photography, Netflix released a bunch of new behind-the-scenes images from stranger things 5The cast and crew of on social media. There’s absolutely nothing new we can glean about the final season’s plot from this photo dump, but at least everyone seems to be having fun on set. It’s a good thing they are too, because the fifth entry of one of Netflix’s best shows will be the darkest and most emotional yet. Anyway, that’s what I hope, because it would be frustrating if stranger things He said goodbye with a groan, rather than a bang.
It’s been a long road until stranger things season 5. The fourth season of the popular science fiction and supernatural horror show was released in May 2022; Well, part 1, consisting of six episodes, did. You can read my thoughts on those posts in my stranger things review of season 4. Its final two episodes arrived two months later and you can read about how it sets up season 5 via my stranger things Explained article from the end of volume 2 of season 4.
Surprising no one, Netflix renewed its hit TV Original for a fifth, albeit final, season weeks later. Unfortunately, stranger things 5The development of was significantly affected by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, which is why stranger things‘the fifth season could not debut in 2024. With filming underway stranger things Season 5 won’t start until January of this year, I was really worried that we wouldn’t see it until 2026 at the earliest. Fortunately, that won’t be the case.
While the wait has been long, we’ve been getting little bits of information about Season 5 to tide us over until it arrives on the world’s best streaming service. For one thing, on July 2, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin, said the length of Season 5’s episodes will be huge, with the actor describing them as “basically, eight movies.” Two weeks later, Netflix released a behind-the-scenes video for season 5 that showed off new characters, fan-favorite teams, and also a possible time jump.
Let us not forget that the first stranger things The spin-off, a prequel to a play titled ‘The First Shadow’, was also available to see in London’s West End. It will make its Broadway debut in early 2025, so be sure to read our review of The First Shadow before you see it. Even if you do, I think Netflix will need to address some of the big revelations from The First Shadow’s story in season 5; otherwise, stranger things 5 will run into the big problem of Marvel and Star Wars.
