You’ll have to wait for the show’s conclusion
By Adam Starkey 26th November 2025
Finn Wolfhard and Winona Ryder in 'Stranger Things' season 5 CREDIT: Netflix
Almost ten years after it debuted, Netflix juggernaut Stranger Things comes to an end with its fifth and final season.
Created by the Duffer Brothers, the coming-of-age series centres around a group of kids in the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s. The group befriends a young girl with psychokinetic abilities, who has escaped from a nearby laboratory and opened a gateway to a twisted parallel dimension, called the Upside Down.
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The show’s fifth season takes place in the autumn of 1987, as the residents of Hawkins unite to take down the all-powerful Vecna.
Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown lead the show’s cast, alongside Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, and Noah Schnapp.
The first four episodes of Stranger Things season five premiered on November 27, 2025 in the UK.
When do the final episodes of Stranger Things season 5 come out in the UK?
‘Stranger Things’ comes to an end with season five. CREDIT: Netflix
Stranger Things season five is being rolled out across three dates. There are eight episodes in total, with the first half being released on November 27, 2025.
RecommendedThe remaining four episodes will be dished out over Christmas. While US viewers will get Volume 2, comprised of three episodes, on Christmas Day at 5pm PT, this translates to 1am Boxing Day in the UK. In the same vein, UK viewers will get the finale on New Year’s Day instead of New Year’s Eve at the same time.
You can find the full season five release schedule for the UK below.
- Episodes 1-4 – November 27, 2025 at 1am GMT
- Episodes 5-7 – December 26, 2025 at 1am GMT
- Episode 8 – January 1, 2026 at 1am GMT
What are the episode titles and runtimes in season 5?
The Duffer Brothers have only confirmed runtimes for the first four episodes. The lengths of the remaining episodes are yet to be announced, but the creators have confirmed the finale will be the longest at roughly two hours. We’ve listed them all below.
- Episode one: The Crawl – 1 hour and 8 minutes
- Episode two: The Vanishing of… – 54 minutes
- Episode three: The Turnbow Trap – 1 hour and 6 minutes
- Episode four: The Sorcerer – 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Episode five: Shock Jock – TBA
- Episode six: Escape From Camazotz – TBA
- Episode seven: The Bridge – TBA
- Episode eight: The Rightside Up – Around two hours
