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
