The final season of Stranger Things to go to production soon. Here's everything you need to know

Stranger Things is all set to return to Netflix for its finale season, but likely won’t be until 2025 at the earliest.

Hit by Hollywood strike, the production is finally expected to start in January, 2024. Since its introduction in July 2016, Stranger Things has been and continues to be one of Netflix’s flagship shows. Each season has gone from strength to strength, increasing in popularity with every new outing.

It has broken a lot of records, including the Nielsen streaming record a getting 7.2 billion minutes in a single week, the show’s fourth season ranks second in Netflix’s all-time most-watched list only behind the first season of Wednesday. The demand for the show was so high on the release of volume 2 that some Netflix users briefly experienced crashes as subscribers raced to consume the epic conclusion of season 4.


Here's everything you need to know:

Official Renewal Date: Renewed on February 17th, 2022

Netflix officially announced a fifth season alongside its plans of what would be a super-sized season 4 of Stranger Things released in the summer of 2022.

Matt and Ross Duffer released a letter explaining that Season 5 will be the conclusion of the series and will complete the story arc they intended for the series.

Speaking about the length of the show ahead of time, Ross Duffer said "We don’t actually know. I think, you know, four to five seasons is likely where we’ll end up, but who knows? I mean, none of this is official, and we know where we want to go. We’re trying to figure out still how long it’ll take to get there, so we’ll see."

What to expect from Season 5:
As Hawkins falls deeper and deeper into chaos, this season is expected to see a large military presence surrounding the town, with only very few residents and our heroes staying behind to keep fighting Vecna. Thanks to the giant smoke plumes emitted from the giant gates, the particles falling all around Hawkins will result in any and all plant life decaying rapidly. Soon the real-world Hawkins will emulate the look of Hawkins from the Upside Down as Vecna’s vision for his “beautiful” new world begins to take shape.

Vecna came extremely close to being killed by Nancy, Steve, and Robin, but can escape before anyone could deal a killing blow. It’s unclear how injured he is, and how long it takes to recover from multiple shotgun blasts and Molotov cocktails. Once fully recovered, we expect to see Vecna unleash his true powers on Hawkins and unleash the hordes of monsters from the Upside Down. Eleven is the only person capable of fighting Vecna one-on-one, and she barely survived her second encounter with him. There’s no denying Eleven’s strength is vast, but it’s more than likely we’ve barely scratched the surface of what her true potential is.

Will Hawkins be quarantined will be one of the biggest mystery in season 5.

The Duffer Brothers have already announced that another time skip will happen in the story and potentially pick back up around 1988 or 1989. This coincides with the real-life ages of the actors, who are already outgrowing their 15-year-old counterparts, such as Gaten Matarazzo, who turns 20 in September 2022, and during the production of season 5, will turn 21.