Stranger Things Season 5 is almost here and we now know how long these runtimes are supposed to be. And honestly, nothing could have prepared us for this information. Ross Duffer hit social media to drop those official runtimes and people are obsessed in the comments section. Folks are trying to glean every single morsel of information about the upcoming season they can before everything gets truly wild.
For starters, the first volume of the final season is four episodes (read: Chapters) long. Then, Volume 2 is three entries and the big Finale gets its own lengthy entry. You should also be aware that volume one hits Netflix on November 26th at 5:00 PM PT. After that, Volume 2 releases on Christmas Day (December 25) at 5PM PT. Finally, the Finale kicks off on New Year’s day (December 31) in the same time slot. That’s a lot of information to digest, but Stranger Things fans are probably used to that anyway.
- Chapter One: The Crawl – 1 hour and 8 minutes
- Chapter Two: The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler – 54 minutes
- Chapter Three: The Turnbow Trap – 1 hour and 6 minutes
- Chapter Four: Sorcerer – 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Chapter Five: Shock Jock – ?
- Chapter Six: Escape From Camazotz – ?
- Chapter Seven: The Bridge – ?
- Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up – ?
Stranger Things 5 runtimes shorter than expected.
The most surprising thing to come from these reveals of how long these episodes are is how different the reported times are from what was speculated about on the Internet.. There were murmurs that each Stranger Things entry was going to be the length of a feature film. And as you can see from the list up above, that isn’t true. Tons of the comments on Ross Duffers Instagram posts are having a lot of fun joking about the scoopers being wrong.
One thing that has remained the same is the fact that Episodes 4 and 8 appear to be the longest. (You would expect that out of Episode 8, after all it’s the literal finale of this year’s long saga.) But, you just know some really gnarly stuff is coming for these poor kids from Hawkins in Episode 4 though. The existential dread is part of the ride when it comes to Stranger Things over the course of this long run on Netflix. It seems like the final season is following the template nicely.
Another running subplot for this final entry in the main Stranger Things saga is how audiences will react to these big holiday release dates. Thanksgiving probably won’t be too much of a problem. But Christmas Day has some real interesting potential on its hands. People are with their families all day, yes. However, are they going to settle in for the three hours of the Netflix show while there’s all kinds of stuff to watch on TV? Stay tuned folks, we’re going to find out!
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