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Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer has officially revealed the lengths of the final episodes of the beloved Netflix series.
As fans eagerly await the conclusion of the new season, Duffer took to social media to announce that all of the remaining four episodes will exceed an hour in duration. The highly anticipated series finale is set to be a cinematic two hours long.
Scheduled for release on Thursday, December 25, the upcoming episodes include Episode 5, “Shock Jock,” which will run for an hour and eight minutes. Episode 6, titled “Escape from Camazotz,” follows with a runtime of one hour and 15 minutes. Episode 7, “The Bridge,” will be an hour and six minutes long, as outlined in Duffer’s social media update.
The series finale, “The Rightside Up,” is slated to premiere on December 31. This concluding chapter will be the season’s longest, with a runtime of two hours and eight minutes.
After nearly a decade since its debut, the sci-fi phenomenon is set to conclude, leaving fans to bid farewell to the iconic series.
Season 5 takes place in the fall of 1987, when life in Hawkins looks very different from the small Indiana town viewers know well by now.
“Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna,” reads the Season 5 synopsis. “But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.”
It continues, “As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”
Stranger Things Season 5, Vol. 2 premieres Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. ET.
The season finale premieres Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. ET.