“Let’s end this, kid,” David Harbour’s Hopper earnestly declares in the first teaser trailer for the fifth and final season of Netflix’s Stranger Things. The first volume of the sci-fi drama’s final chapter arrives November 26, followed by volume two on Christmas Day and the finale on December 31.
Season five picks up in the fall of 1987, not long after the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, has been invaded by the alternate dimension known as the Upside Down. The characters have gotten a bit older (it’s been three years since the season four finale) and the hair styles have grown a little bigger (Nancy Wheeler’s perm is…perm-ier).
The new episodes will see Hopper, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Joyce (Winona Ryder), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp), Max (Sadie Sink), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), Steven (Joe Keery), and Robin (Maya Hawke) determined to find and kill Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). The teaser also reveals a first look at guest star Linda Hamilton as Dr. Kay, though not much is known yet about the character.
Complicating matters, a military lockdown in Hawkins promises to thwart our heroes’ mission. Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer have also promised to answer more questions surrounding the show’s mythology, specifically the cryptic Upside Down, in the final season.
Watch the official teaser below:
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