In the fall of 1983, Will Byers disappeared from his home in Hawkins, Indiana, and set the stage for one of the most successful television series of all time.In the fall of 1987, that story will come to an end…Netflix has just announced that the fifth and final season ofStranger Thingswill drop in 2025, which is quite the pleasant surprise, even if the announcement was made on “Stranger Things Day”, Netflix’s name for November 6, the same date that Will vanished. The accelerated filming of the climax to the series means we’ll get to see Eleven and the gang sooner than we realised, which brings bittersweet news — we get to see them again, but we also say goodbye sooner than we thought.

As part of the reveal, we’ve also been shown the titles of every episode for what’s left, and now,the speculation can beginas to what all of these mean forNetflix’s biggest show. All eyes will immediately go to the final two episodes, entitled ‘The Bridge’ and ‘The Rightside Up’, which is undoubtedly a reference to the Upside Down, the alternate dimension which has served as the lair of the sinister Vecna and from where he does his bidding. The full list of episode titles can be found below.

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Created byThe Duffer Bros.,the pair are also joined in the creative team byShawn Levy, who will be returning to the series to direct at least one episode of the final season.Speaking with Collider’sSteve Weintraubat CinemaCon in Las Vegas back in April, Levy spilled on some secrets regarding his return to the show.

“Yeah. Literally, I’m stammering a bit because I don’t know that we’re sharing the details of that, but you can do the math. As you know, I’ve always directed Episodes 3 and 4. We got to get after it, and so with my schedule and the show’s schedule, I’m gonna be doing a later episode.

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“It’s always a mixture of both withStranger Things… if you look at any episode ofStranger Things, you can see that the Duffers have always been obsessed with, as they put it, sticking the landing. We’ve got to stick the landing of every episode, and we tried to stick the landing with the end of every season. So, you better believe we are all of us devoted to sticking the landing with the series finale.”

Get ready for a terrifying farewell to the Upside Down whenStranger Thingsreturns in 2025.

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Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.

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