Read on for a recap of the entire "Stranger Things" saga to date, including what's happened in Season 5 so far. The story begins with the disappearance of Will Byers ( Noah Schnapp ), who goes missing after biking home from his friend Mike Wheeler's ( Finn Wolfhard) house in Hawkins, Indiana.

Read: Where Stranger Things loses its magic] For fans watching to see how Eleven and her friends save the day, much of this stagnation is probably bearable. The show remains compulsively watchable; each episode ends on a cliff-hanger.

If you’re a Stranger Things fan who is plugged into social media and Reddit, there’s a really good chance that you’ve seen the fan theory that Eddie Munson will

Nearly a decade after the hit sci-fi horror series debuted, cast members including Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo and Maya Hawke gathered in New York City.

It sets the stage for a massive showing on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve as Netflix rolls out the final episodes of the series. While Nielsen reports are a month delayed, Netflix will report the totals for Season 5’s remaining episodes in the coming weeks, as it did for the first four episodes .

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer just confirmed the runtimes for the final episodes of the Netflix hit series. With just four episodes left in the highly anticipated new season, Duffer confirmed on social media that the all of the episodes have a runtime north of an hour, with the series finale clocking in at a whopping two hours.