Netflix released the trailer for the final season of Stranger Things, and there is a reason why each episode is the length of a movie, because the trailer makes it feel like the whole season is going to be like the old summer blockbusters of the ’80s and ’90s. As in an epic adventure that you can only experience in the dark while eating popcorn.
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.
The cast and the producers previewed the swan song episodes:
Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) said, “Eleven is in training mode. She’s in a warrior state, which is the first time you see Eleven like that at the beginning of a season. As for her mindset, all she is thinking about is protecting her friends. Her friends are her chosen family, so she will do whatever it takes to protect them and we’re going to see that.”
Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) said, “Dustin is kind of in a bit of a funk. I think everybody probably is considering the state that Hawkins is in, and it’s getting a little bit harder for the gang to keep all the pieces together. We’re all dealing with the day-to-day issues of what it is to try to keep everybody safe and figure out where Vecna is, while having a lot of unpacked baggage from the events in the previous season.”
Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas) said, “It’s always been in the beginning of a season that everything is all good, but this is the first season we come into it and the stakes are the same as where we left off. We haven’t defeated Vecna and the problem is still there. We’re still trying to figure it out and we may not be able to figure it out, so you feel that burden on Lucas as well as everyone else on the show. Everyone is on edge and we’re all just trying to keep hope alive.”
Noah Schnapp (Will) said, “Will is back in Hawkins this season. He was out of Hawkins for the last season, so now we’re seeing the effects of him being back in that realm. We kind of hit the ground running right away this season, which is really exciting and not how we’ve started any other season. Everyone is all in one place and we all have the same objective.”
Sadie Sink (Max) said, “We ended Season 4 in a tough place for Max. Her final moments were her in a hospital bed. Eleven was searching for her in the void and couldn’t find her, so Max is definitely not the way she once was. There’s still a small glimmer of hope, though, and her friends are hanging on to that.”
Finn Wolfhard (Mike) said, “Mike is back in leadership mode, and he’s kind of taken it more upon himself to help plan out these missions, and he and the whole gang are devoted to finding Vecna and ending this.”
Ross Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director) said, “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. 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 Duffer (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Writer, Director) said, “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.”
Shawn Levy (Executive Producer & Director) said, “The action is next level, the visual effects are next level, but I’m also happy to say that the emotional center remains the same. And part of the magic of this show is that even as we evolve, even as the storytelling becomes more epic, it’s always anchored in these characters that we love.”
The first four episodes drop at 5p (on all release dates) on Thanksgiving Eve, the next three on Christmas, and the final one on New Year’s Eve.
I really hope that the series finale finally has the balls to kill everyone! Why has no show ever ended with everyone dying? Why?
It feels like we have been waiting since the ’80s for the final season of Stranger Things. And we will have to wait just a little bit longer for the final episodes.
The first four episodes will drop the day before Thanksgiving. The next three will be a Christmas Day treat. And finally, we can end the year with the last episode.
Here is the synopsis for the 5th season: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”
Netflix is giving us the reason to Netflix & Hide from our families during the holidays.
Millie Bobby Brown has been whining that people say that she looks old since she went blonde. And she has.
But it is not her hair that makes her look like a Real Housewife of New Jersey since she is married to a Bongiovi. It is whoever is styling her. She is dressing like someone three times her age.
Case in point. Today on The Drew Barrymore Show, the Stranger Things star was trying to look like Drew’s Josie Geller from Never Been Kissed, but instead, she looked like Ivana Trump again.
Seriously, she needs to get a stylist who will dress her like a 20-something-year-old and not a middle-aged woman trying to recapture your youth.
