Stranger Things season 5 is showing up in three different parts

If you want to do a full binge, you'll have to wait until New Year's 2026, as the show rolls out two volumes on November 26 and Christmas.

Stranger Things season 5 is showing up in three different parts
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Netflix is currently running its Tudum Live event, the big showcase where the streamer shows off its casts and trailers while humble Newswire writers try to find six different ways to say “Hey, it’s Tudum.” The show is now getting into the bigger and more expensive parts of the evening, which means fewer appearances from random wrestlers, and more showing off by the Stranger Things cast. (Specifically Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp, who held down the stage with remembrances while running videos from some of their apparently more busy co-workers.) There was some real information about the show, though, even if the series didn’t get a full trailer at the event. We instead got a nostalgia-minded video that ended on the actual news: Stranger Things 5 will show up in three different parts.

Specifically, “Volume 1” of the final season will air on November 26, followed by Volume 2 on Christmas. Finally, the show’s full finale will show up one week later, arriving on New Year’s Day 2026. So, no complete binge watch is in order (at least, unless you wait to take in the whole show with your hangover next year), but the regular, fairly rapid infusion of new episodes does seem like a possible way to keep the series from sinking beneath the rising waves of Netflix’s usual ocean of slop quite as fast as some of its “event” TV so often does.

 
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