‘Stranger Things’ Season Five Wraps Production

Filming for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things has wrapped, with the show slated to return sometime in 2025.

Netflix confirmed the news via its in-house publication, Tudum, sharing a whole bunch of new behind-the-scenes photos, which you can check out below.

Stranger Things began production on Season Five at the beginning of 2024 after being delayed because of the 2023 writers and actors strikes. The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, previously announced that the hit show, which debuted in 2016, would end after its fifth season back in Feb. 2022. 

A few behind-the-scenes photos and details — such as the names of the last eight episodes — had trickled out prior to today’s big end-of-production reveal, but otherwise, the lid has been kept unsurprisingly tight on what’s in store for the show’s final season. One thing that is known is that the show will pick up in the fall of 1987, well after the events of Season Four, which began in the spring of 1986.

Season Five will also feature a handful of new cast members, including Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly, Alex Breaux, and the Terminator’s own Linda Hamilton (though it’s still unclear what role she’ll be playing). 

David Harbour did discuss the emotional table read for the last episode during an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. The actor said that “halfway through” the read, “people started crying. Then about the last 20 minutes, it was just uncontrollably crying, waves of different people.”

He went on to call the finale  “the best episode they’ve ever done,” saying, “They land the plane.”