‘Stranger Things’ Sets Season 5 Episode Titles, Release Date

In honor of 2024’s Stranger Things Day, Netflix has revealed the episode titles for the hit show’s fifth and final season.

The mega-streamer also confirmed the season would be released in 2025 and not in 2026 as was briefly speculated online.

Stranger Things season five will have eight episodes, like almost all of the previous seasons, except for seasons two and four, which both had nine.

The episode titles are: “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of _____,” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.”

While the video (below) revealed all the titles of the episodes, there appeared to be someone or something censored out of the title of the second episode, “The Vanishing Of.” Whatever (or whomever) is vanishing, Netflix is not quite ready to share. The title also hints at a potential throwback to the first episode of Stranger Things, “The Vanishing of Will Byers.”

Despite the brief teaser confirming the final season would be coming in 2025, the streamer did not reveal when next year it would be debuting. However, the video does note, “In the fall of 1987, one last adventure begins,” which may or may not mean Stranger Things season five would hit Netflix in the latter part of 2025. Previous seasons of the Emmy-winning show have been released in the summer or the fall.

Stranger Things Day takes place every year on Nov. 6, in honor of the day Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing from Hawkins, Indiana, in 1983 during the first season, kicking off the series’ events. Despite the whole town giving up on finding Will, his friends and family kept looking, coming across a mysterious girl known as Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).

The fifth and final season of the series will pick up sometime after the events of the season four finale — spoiler alert! — which saw Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) succeed in wreaking havoc on Hawkins and breaking the town into four parts.

While not much else is known about the plot of Stranger Things season five, co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer have revealed a few things. First, Will is a “big part and focus” of the final season, likely bringing the show full circle to season one, when he was trapped in the Upside Down. Second, season five will have a time jump — which Wednesday’s teaser confirms. It won’t be a huge leap forward, however, as season four was set in spring 1986. Third, Vecna will be back.