“Stranger Things”After a nearly three-year wait between Seasons 3, and 4, the show delivered. The cast did not age offscreen but the events of Season 4 would have an effect on anyone’s life, especially if it involves trying saving the world.
The supersized Season 4 built up much backstory with its nine episodes — each at least over an hour long, with the finale taking two hours and twenty minutes to unfold. It was also split into two volumes, the first half containing the majority of the episodes, leaving us with the epic reveal of Vecna’s true identity. Season 4’s final episode spelled doom for Hawkins in Indiana.
Already, the Duffer Brothers are hinting at the fifth and final season in their science fiction drama series. Here’s what we know about “Stranger Things”Season 5 thus far:
Season 5 will conclude. “Stranger Things”
When Season 4’s release dates were announced, the Duffers also confirmed that it was the beginning of the end, with Season 4 being the penultimate season, and Season 5 the final installment of the beloved series.
Their letterThe plan was explained to the fans when the show started. It also suggests possible spinoffs.
The writer’s room for Season 5 will start in August
The Duffer Brothers have said that the Season 5 writer’s room will begin in August. The filming could start in 2023 and be completed in 2024, with a possible release in 2025 or 2025.
“We’re going to take a little vacation in July,” Ross Duffer Telled Collider. “And then we’re going to come back. I know that the writer’s room is going to start in that first week of August.”
The brothers said that they had most of Season 5 written down and outline in that same interview. This was due to the six-month delay that the COVID pandemic created.
Season 5 will be centered in Hawkins
Interview with ColliderThe Duffer Brothers confirmed that Season 5 would take place mainly in Hawkins (Indiana), where it all began.
At the end of Season 4, most of the crew who diverged out of the small town made it back in some capacity, except for Dr. Martin Brenner, who died out in the New Mexico desert at the hands of Colonel Sullivan’s men. The Upside Down is threatening Hawkins in a large way. It sure looks like there will be a major battle.
Will Byers’ character will be a big focus, and hopefully Nancy’s love triangle will resolve
Matt Duffer told Collider, “Will’s going to be a big part and focus, is really all I can say of Season 5, in his journey. We’re starting to see his coming of age, really. Which has been challenging for a number of reasons, some of which are supernatural. But you’re starting to see him come into his own.”Ross Duffer was also added “[It’s] setting up us coming full circle back to Season 1. I think you’ll see that with a couple of the character arcs, not just with Will. But also with Steve and Nancy, and her relationship with Jonathan where things are not fully resolved. The characters have maybe made steps, like in the case of Will, but that journey isn’t over yet. All of that is going to play a huge role as we try to wrap this thing up next season.”
There might be a time jump involved
According to TVLineDuffer Brothers entertained the idea that they could infuse the plot with time jumping. This could bring the cast closer to their real ages as opposed to the characters they were before COVID.
“I’m sure we will do a time jump,”Ross. “Ideally, we’d have shot [Seasons 4 and 5]It was impossible to go backwards, however.
Eddie Munson is very much dead
Rest in Peace Eddie. He bravely gave his life to save a town from the Upside Down demobats. The Duffers confirmed Joseph Quinn’s character’s death (for good) on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, unlike Hopper’s Season 4 “death.”
They also hinted on the same pod that Eddie’s death will have “huge repercussions”For the remaining characters of Season 5.
Max is technically still breathing because she has a pulse.
Interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sink discussed her character’s situation at the end of Season 4, after Vecna ‘consumed’She was beaten by most of them, but Eleven saved her. Max has her four limbs and vision lost when Vecna takes Max to the fourth gate.
“I’m not sure where we’re going and what Max’s state is. It’s definitely all up in the air right now,” Sink says, though she acknowledges Max does have a pulse and isn’t completely gone as she lies recovering in a hospital bed. “I’m just as excited as everyone else to find out where Max is and how she’s doing.”
Eleven can’t find Max when she searches the dark void for her, and the Hawkins doctors say she’s in a coma.
“I knew in advance, but even when I was watching the episode, you fully think she’s dead. You think Max is gone.”Sink explained Vulture. She’s definitely not back in the way she once was, but there’s still a small glimmer of hope. But then again, Eleven is searching for her in the void and can’t find her. So who knows where she is and what state she’s in.”
The Duffers stated Max was on the Happy Sad Confused podcast “braindead and blind and all of her bones are broken.”
Season 5 will be shorter than season 4, but it will have more action than buildup.
Matt Duffer revealed that Season 5 will not match Season 4’s length, mostly due to the story structure shift and the idea that Season 4 paved the way for Season 5 to hit the ground running.
“We thought Season 4 was going to be eight [episodes], and they were going to be regular length. So if you had interviewed us before four, that’s what I would’ve said.”He told the story Collider. “I think we’re aiming for eight again. We don’t want it to be 13 hours. We’re aiming for more like 10 hours or something. I think it’s going to be longer than Season 1 because we just have so much to wrap up, but I don’t think it’s going to be as long as Season 4.”
Ross also explained in the interview that the Season 4 buildup will also help to shorten the final season.
“It was two hours before our characters even realized the monster was killing people in Hawkins [in Season 4],”He stated. “They know what the threat is now, and so that will help speed it up.”
The end. “Stranger Things”It is certain to be emotionally charged
In a Q&A with VarietyThe Duffers shared their experiences pitching Netflix for the fifth and final season.
“During the six-month pandemic hiatus, we outlined Season 5 and pitched it to Netflix. Everyone there had also been present when we first pitched the show in 2015. While we were strangers then, we were now friends and there were a lot of tears when it was over.”
Netflix will soon release Season 5 at once
According to Variety, Netflix’s head of scripted series for the U.S. and Canada Peter Friedlander suggested that Season 5 would not get split up, at least not into weekly episodes.
“We fundamentally believe that we want to give our members the choice in how they view,”According to the Netflix executive. “And so giving them that option on these scripted series to watch as much as they want to watch when they watch it, is still fundamental to what we want to provide. And so when you see something like a batched season with ‘Stranger Things,’ this is our attempt at making sure we can get shows out quicker to the members.”
