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Stranger Things Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2025 - 2025
Episode 1
Chapter One: The Crawl
Wed, Nov 26, 202571 mins
Hawkins, Indiana, in 1987, and the town is under quarantine by the military. The gang continues their "crawls" Into the Upside Down. Will is haunted by visions from the Demogorgon, and Dustin copes with Eddie's death. Meanwhile, Holly Wheeler is haunted by visions of a man who isn't there.
Episode 2
Chapter Two: The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler
Wed, Nov 26, 202557 mins
The Demogorgon comes to the Wheeler house to abduct Holly, and injuries Karen. Mike, Nancy, Will. and Robin uncover the identity of Mr. Whatsit. Meanwhile, Hop and El track Holly in the Upside Dow and come to a barrier preventing them from finding Holly.
Episode 3
Chapter Three: The Turnbow Trap
Wed, Nov 26, 202569 mins
The gang sets a trap for the Demogorgon at the Tenbrow house when they learn that it is going there after abducting Holly. Holly explores her new environment after meeting a friendly face, and finds someone who has been trapped there for a while.
Episode 4
Chapter Four: Sorcerer
Wed, Nov 26, 202586 mins
The gang comes up with a plan to rescue the captured children from the military, to which Derek is a key part. Meanwhile El and Hop infiltrate the military base and find out who the mysterious prisoner is. Will comes into his own when his friends;' lives are in danger.
Episode 5
Chapter Five: Shock Jock
Thu, Dec 25, 202568 mins
Half the Gang goes into the Upside Down to explore, while the other half conduct a dangerous experiment with Will and an electrified Demogorgon, Max and Holly tried to find an escape but Vecna finally hunts them down, and El compares notes with an old friend.
Episode 6
Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz
Thu, Dec 25, 202575 mins
Holly and Max struggle to escape Vecna's mind. In the Upside Down, Vecna uses Will as a spy one last time. Robin tries to explain the situation to Vickie, Kali disagrees with Jim about what he's telling El, and the Demogorgons come for Max.
Episode 7
Chapter Seven: The Bridge
Thu, Dec 25, 202566 mins
Holly tries to convince the other children of Mr. Whatzit's true plan. Steve comes up with a plan to defeat the approaching Vecna, and he and Dustin exchange apologies. Will tells the others his true feelings, as they plan to fight Vecna once and for all.
Episode 8
Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up
Wed, Dec 31, 2025128 mins
As the others make their way to the Abyss, Eleven, Kali, and Max enter Henry's mind and stop him from merging the worlds, but he transforms into Vecna, escapes and tricks Hopper into breaking the link. Akers fatally shoots Kali, prompting Eleven to kill him and his soldiers, while Holly leads the other children out of Henry's mind. Will witnesses Henry's past and learns he was corrupted by a fragment of the Mind Flayer, which he fully embraces despite Will's pleas. The Mind Flayer rises as a giant kaiju, and Henry is ultimately impaled by Eleven and Will, while the others destroy the Mind Flayer. The group rescues the children, and Joyce decapitates a dying Henry. After returning to Hawkins and detonating the Upside Down, the group is arrested by Dr. Kay, but released when Eleven chooses to stay behind in the collapsing Upside Down. Eighteen months later, life is normal again: the older teens reunite, Hopper proposes to Joyce, and the younger teens graduate and play Dungeons & Dragons, as Mike imagines their futures and theorizes how Eleven may still be alive.
