The Trailer For Part 1 of Stranger Things Season 5 Might Just Show the Crew Going Into the Upside Down
The first part of Stranger Things Season 5 is on its way in just a couple days — so naturally, it was the perfect time for Netflix to drop the trailer for the first three episodes, which will be released on the platform on November 26.
To be fair, we’ve seen most of the footage in the trailer, below, before — however, there’s all-new shots of Joe Keery’s Steve driving himself, Dustin, Nancy, and Jonathan into a portal, which seems to lead to the Upside Down itself, presumably to find and kill Vecna, the story’s central villain. Pretty interesting stuff there. We definitely want to know more about that.
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Netflix also recently released the first five minutes of the season, and got Ross and Matt Duffer, co-creators and showrunners of the series, to open up about where the characters are at as we head into the final season of the decade-long show.
“I think what’s unique about this season is that it starts a little bit in chaos because our heroes ultimately lost at the end of Season 4,” Ross explained about the season’s pacing. “We usually set up their normal life and how they’re going about school, and then we introduce the supernatural element. But in this case, this season is sprinting from the start.”
Matt explained that it’s all going breakneck speed for a reason. He added: “They’re not experiencing normal life. Nothing in Hawkins is normal anymore… their movement is restricted, and there are Big Brother cameras everywhere. So not only are they active — their everyday, normal lives are anything but.”
Who Will Die In Stranger Things Season 5?
The final season of Stranger Things has been broken up into three parts. The first section of three episodes drops the day before Thanksgiving, the second set of three episodes arrives for Christmas, and the finale episode of the series will premiere (both on the streamer and in theaters) on New Year’s Eve.
It’ll be interesting to see where the story of this series ends after all this time — but one thing’s for sure: they’re going to go out with a bang.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
