Season 5 arrives later this year, more than three years after the Upside Down began creeping into Hawkins. The delay can be attributed to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2024, as

As well as these (mostly) unnamed new characters, Stranger Things season 5 will also see plenty of returning faces alongside Wolfhard, including Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, and Maya Hawke.

Stranger Things Season 5 will consist of eight episodes — and we already know their names. The final season of Stranger Things features eight episodes titled “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of …,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.”