Netflix releases final Stranger Things trailer and release dates

Netflix released the full trailer on Thursday for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, setting a release schedule that begins next month and frames the closing chapters as an all-out battle for Hawkins, Indiana. Volume 1 of the eight-episode season arrives Nov. 26 in the United States, followed by Volume 2 on Dec. 25 and the series finale on Dec. 31; viewers in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe will see the drops a day later. Netflix also confirmed the finale will play in select theaters on the same night as its streaming debut.

The nearly three-minute trailer opens in the Upside Down and uses Queen’s Who Wants to Live Forever to underscore the series’ darker tone. It shows Hawkins under military quarantine, rifts spewing creatures into the town, and Vecna reemerging as the central threat. In a final shot Vecna levitates an incapacitated Will Byers and tells him, “You are going to help me one last time,” a moment that the trailer suggests will be central to the final season’s conflict. Other scenes include Demogorgons attacking soldiers, Lucas carrying a comatose Max in a hospital elevator, and Eleven training and operating in a “warrior” mode.