Stranger Things Fires Off All Eight Season 5 Episode Titles — and a Big Clue About How the Series Ends
On Wednesday, aka the anniversary of the day in 1983 that Stranger Things’ Will Byers was taken by the Demogorgon, Netflix marked the occasion by revealing the titles of all eight episodes that will make up the beloved series’ fifth and final season. In addition to “The Crawl,” which was revealed two years ago (!), they are: “The Vanishing of,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.”
That last one should give fans hope that, no matter how high the death toll of the episodes, we’ll be getting at least a happy-ish ending.
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You’ll recall that work on Season 5 of the Duffer Brothers’ ’80s-set sci-fi/horror/adventure/dramedy was delayed for seven months by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Production finally got underway in January 2024, leaving us anticipating the show’s 2025 return with those long-awaited episodes.
In the action-packed Season 4 finale (recapped here), Jamie Campbell Bower’s Vecna, the rare Big Bad who is as powerful as he is twisted, had pretty much laid waste to our heroes’ hometown of Hawkins, Ind. The villain’s plan? To go even further and make the destruction “1,000 times better,” Bower told TVLine. “His experience has led him to this point of believing… actually knowing, not necessarily believing, that people present a falsity, and this world is just full of liars. He really wants to change that for the greater good.”
In other words, our protagonists have their work cut out for them!
To watch the titles reveal, press PLAY on the video at the top of this post. Then check out our rundown of all the Season 5 intel we’ve gleaned so far.
Stranger Things Season 5: Everything We Know About the Final Episodes
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