Next year we’re officially going back to Upside Down.

A new one Stranger things The season 5 teaser arrived as a treat for Netflix on Wednesday Stranger things Day, which always falls on November 6, the day Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing in Hawkins, Indiana. The decline was accompanied by a few tantalizing affirmations.

First off, the final season of the runaway streaming hit will premiere sometime in 2025. Fans feared further delays due to the Hollywood actor and writer’s strikes, but they can rest easy knowing that the remaining episodes will indeed drop next year.

Second, the story will include a time jump. Ross Duffer, co-creator of the series with brother Matt, previously indicated in an interview with TV Line in 2022 that this would be inevitable, given that the actors are now much older than they were filming for season 4. seasons 4 and 5) back to back, but there just wasn’t a feasible way to do that,” he said at the time.

Season 5 now picks up in the fall of 1987. That’s more than a year after the events of season 4, which began in March 1986. When we last saw the gang, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike (Finn Wolfhard ), Will, Hopper (David Harbour), Joyce (Winona Ryder), Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) stood in a field watching as portals from the Upside Down burst open, bringing hellish horrors into the real world.

Meanwhile, Max (Sadie Sink) was still unconscious in the hospital, but the actress cryptically noted of her character arc in season 5, “They love to make me run. That’s all I’ll say.”

The third and final tidbit released on Wednesday was the collection of titles for all eight episodes of Season 5. Episode 1, as we already knew from a previous script page tease, is called “The Crawl.” Netflix has partially redacted the title for episode 2, but we know it will at least start with “The Vanishing of…”. The remaining episodes are titled “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “Right Side Up.”

Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Brett Gilman, Priah Ferguson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono and Amybeth McNulty will return along with the aforementioned actors for the final season, which will also consist ofTerminator legend Linda Hamilton and fellow newcomers Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux.

“This is the season fans have been waiting for, and we hope you’re as excited as we are to tell the final chapter of this story,” Ross Duffer said in a behind-the-scenes video marking the halfway point. point of movie season 5.

“If season 4 was big, season 5 definitely feels bigger,” Bower, returning as Vecna, teased in the same video.

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Appears on a recent live recording of the Happy sad confused podcast at New York Comic Con, Harbor described the table read for the Stranger things final episode of the series. “At the end of this episode, when we were reading it, just as we read it, people started crying about halfway through,” he said. “The last twenty minutes it was just uncontrollable crying, waves of different people.”