New STRANGER THINGS Season 5 Teaser Confirms a 2025 Release and Reveals the Titles of the Final Season's Episodes
Netflix and the Duffer Brothers have released a new teaser confirming that we will finally see the long-awaited fifth and final season of Stranger Things in 2025.
The video was released this week on November 6th as a throwback to Nov. 6, 1983, a.k.a. “Stranger Things Day” — the day Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was abducted into the Upside Down in the first episode.
The video also reveals the titles of the eight episodes in the fifth season, which include “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of…,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.”
Some of these titles allude to earlier episodes: “The Vanishing of…”, calls back to the series premiere “The Vanishing of Will Byers.” Fans online have already speculated that the new abductee could be Holly Wheeler, the younger sister of Mike (Finn Wolfhard) who was reportedly recast with “Evil Dead Rise” actor Nell Fisher, but Netflix has not officially confirmed.
The Season 1 finale was titled “The Upside Down,” the name of the phantasmagoric alternate dimension connected to Hawkins, so it is fitting that the series finale title, “The Rightside Up,” is the reverse. And the penultimate episode title, “The Bridge,” evokes curious titles like Season 4’s “The Piggyback” and Season 2’s “The Gate.”
“The Turnbow Trap” probably refers to a Hawkins’ business called Turnbow Land Development & Realty; series co-creator Ross Duffer posted an Upside Down-ified billboard for the company on Instagram in March. “Shock Jock,” meanwhile, likely references WSQK, a radio station that appears (again, courtesy of posts from Ross Duffer) to be a part of the season.
Then there’s “Escape From Camazotz,” which is presumably a reference to Madeleine L’Engle’s seminal sci-fi novel A Wrinkle in Time, in which the planet of Camazotz is under the unyielding control of nefarious entities known as the Black Thing and IT. What Camazotz refers to in Stranger Things, and who could be escaping from it, remain to be seen.
Another detail in the video is the reveal that the season takes place in the fall of 1987, four years after the events of the first season — which debuted eight years ago, in 2016.
Check out the video below, and catch up on seasons 1-4 on Netflix.