The final season of Stranger Things now has an action-packed trailer
Season four ended with one heck of a cliffhanger so, of course, things pick up from there. The footage depicts all kinds of supernatural chaos impacting the small Indiana town. It's been three whole years since the last season, so here's a refresher from Netflix about the upcoming batch of episodes. It's filled with spoilers from previous seasons, so read at your own risk.
"The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. 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. 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."
Season five of Stranger Things is split into three parts, which is something Netflix loves to do lately. Volume One, which will have four episodes, comes out on November 26, followed a month later by three episodes for Volume Two on December 25 and the final episode on December 31. We don't know how long each episode will be, but some season four installments reached 90 minutes.
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