{"id":218239,"date":"2025-10-16T17:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218239\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:35:07","slug":"well-we-have-to-now-stranger-things-season-5-will-finally-explain-the-series-biggest-mystery-showrunners-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218239\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Well, We Have to Now!’ \u2014 Stranger Things Season 5 Will Finally Explain the Series’ Biggest Mystery, Showrunners Confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stranger Things<\/a> fans, start sounding the alarms: you\u2019re about to find out all the secrets of the show\u2019s expansive world during the upcoming fifth and final season \u2014 at least as it relates to the Upside Down. <\/p>\n

Ross Duffer revealed in an expansive new interview with Variety<\/a> that the most important task in Season 5 was to explain \u201cabout what the Upside Down was.\u201d The co-creator and showrunner of the series, a job he shares with twin Matt Duffer, added: \u201cEvery season would be like, \u2018Should we talk about it?\u2019 And we\u2019d go, \u2018No, let\u2019s wait.\u2019 And then finally, we\u2019re like, \u2018Well, we have to now!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

That said, Matt also noted that he and his brother aren\u2019t super interested in trying to “increasingly expand what could become an insanely convoluted mythology” following the final season. There is, in fact, a spinoff series in the works but because of the desire to not complicate the lore, that installment in the greater universe of the show will “live in a bit of a different world,” though “there’s going to be connective tissue,\u201d according to Ross. <\/p>\n

It seems the Duffer Brothers don\u2019t want to make things more difficult than they need to be because they\u2019ve found a way to make all five seasons of the show interlock like a puzzle. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like we dropped a storyline \u2014 it all connects,\u201d Ross told the outlet. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe do every last remaining thing we wanted to do with the Demogorgons and Mind Flayer and Vecna and the Upside Down and Hawkins and these characters,\u201d Matt noted. \u201cThis is a complete story. It\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The creative arm behind Stranger Things has been working tirelessly for, frankly, an insane amount of time to make this show what it\u2019s become since 2016 \u2014 and it\u2019s clear the Duffers are focused on giving fans an ending to remember. \u201cWe\u2019ve spent 10 years on this,\u201d Ross explained. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to put 100% energy in just making sure we land this plane. So no thought is going elsewhere at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stranger Things Season 5 Photos\"\"<\/p>\n

Stranger Things Season 5 will be released in three separate episode drops. The first four episodes premiere on Netflix on November 26, the next three debut on Christmas Day, and the final episode is set to be released on New Year\u2019s Day. Ross Duffer recently confirmed the Stranger Things Season 5 episode runtimes<\/a>, squashing all the rumors. <\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things fans, start sounding the alarms: you\u2019re about to find out all the secrets of the show\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-218239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}