STRANGER THINGS Final Season Kicks Off with "The Craziest Cold Open We’ve Ever Done"
Stranger Things Season 5 is almost here, and the Duffer Brothers are hyping it up big time. According to Ross Duffer, the beginning of the end for Hawkins is “our favorite, most eventful first episode since Season 1.”
That's a big claim, considering what the series opener delivered! The co-creator dropped the update on Instagram, confirming that episodes 1 and 2 are officially complete.
“Chapters One and Two: locked, mixed, scored, colored, DONE,” he wrote, sharing title cards for the episodes, “The Crawl” and “The Vanishing of [redacted].”
That second episode title is a direct nod to “The Vanishing of Will Byers” from Season 1, and Duffer’s caption only fuels fan speculation: “The Vanishing of… (yeah yeah you think you know who blah blah).” Could Will be going MIA again?
Duffer als teased that episode two features “by far the craziest cold open we’ve ever done. One of the sequences we’re most proud of this season.” So, it sounds like we’re in for something intense, and probably pretty traumatic, right out of the gate.
While fans are itching for more details, Duffer is keeping most info under wraps, and in regards to runtimes, noted: “I would tell you runtimes, but I was told not to. At a later date, I guess.”
That follows some recent viral fake news about every episode being two hours long, with a nearly three-hour finale. So yeah, best to wait for the official word.
Created by Matt and Ross Duffer, Stranger Things has been a genre-defining series for nearly a decade. Now, it all comes to a close in Season 5.
Set in the fall of 1987, this final chapter finds Hawkins under military lockdown, the government hunting down Eleven, and Vecna looming large for one last showdown.
Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 drops on Netflix November 26, Volume 2 hits on Christmas Day, and the grand finale lands on New Year’s Eve.