“Stranger Things” season 5 has an official release date, but it might not be what fans were expecting. The Netflix series’ final season will premiere on Wednesday, November 26, but the episodes aren’t coming out weekly or all at once. Only the first four episodes of “Stranger Things” season 5 will be released on Thanksgiving Eve, 2025.

Stranger Things' revealed its fifth and final season’s release schedule Saturday during Netflix’s Tudum event.

Stranger Things Season 5 has its release date — or 3, rather. The final installment of the Netflix tentpole series will arrive in three parts at the end of this year. Season 5 officially wrapped production December 2024 after it had reached the halfway point in July.