{"id":218541,"date":"2025-10-17T00:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218541\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:33:10","slug":"stranger-things-5-brings-a-definitive-ending-to-the-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218541\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things 5 Brings A \u2018Definitive Ending\u2019 To The Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started<\/a> with a Dungeons & Dragons campaign; four kids in a basement in Hawkins, Indiana, who soon found themselves battling supernatural evils in their real lives, and in a mysterious realm known as the Upside Down. From those beginnings, the story of Stranger Things<\/a> has grown exponentially \u2013 broadening into an entire mythology of monsters, malls, and mates facing it all together. Now, it\u2019s all about to end: Stranger Things 5<\/a> will close the Dungeon Master\u2019s Guide for good, pitting Mike, Eleven, Will, Dustin, Lucas and friends against Vecna and his hordes one last time.<\/p>\n

For its creators, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, it\u2019s time to go all-in, leave nothing on the table. \u201cNow we\u2019re in the final season, we don\u2019t have to hold anything back,\u201d Matt tells Empire in our world-exclusive Stranger Things 5<\/a> issue. \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to tie everything into a perfect bow, but I think we answer most questions and resolve every arc,\u201d promises Ross. \u201cIt was our intention to write a definitive ending to this story.\u201d Expect bigger, bolder (and yes, stranger) things in these eight episodes. \u201cWhen we pitched it to Netflix, we genuinely thought the scale was going to be about on par with Season 4<\/a>,\u201d grins Matt. \u201cBut, uh\u2026 that turned out to be a lie.\u201d The brothers tease massive battles that will \u201cevoke the same feeling\u201d as Game Of Thrones\u2019 Battle Of The Bastards. \u201cEpisode 4 and Episode 8 are just monsters,\u201d Matt beams. That fourth instalment is \u2018Sorcerer\u2019, described by the duo as \u201cthe most logistically insane shoot of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stranger Things 5 marks the end of an era, too, for its young cast, who have grown up alongside their characters. \u201cThe morning I walked in on my last day, I immediately started crying,\u201d says Eleven herself, Millie Bobby Brown. Finn Wolfhard says it\u2019s \u201cdefinitely emotional\u201d to be saying goodbye to Mike Wheeler. \u201cIt probably won\u2019t feel final for a while,\u201d he admits. Gaten Matarazzo, aka Dustin Henderson, is still \u201cgetting used to it all being over\u201d, he says, while Will Byers actor Noah Schnapp is thankful for the family created by working on a show for 10 years. \u201cWhat\u2019s sad isn\u2019t leaving the attention and the hype. It\u2019s those real relationships that we\u2019ve formed through working on it for so long,\u201d he says. \u201cThose relationships are very meaningful.\u201d For Caleb McLaughlin, it\u2019s \u201cbittersweet\u201d to bid farewell to Lucas. \u201cI\u2019m not really that upset. I\u2019m just happy that I experienced it,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s like gold, it\u2019s so rare.\u201d<\/p>\n

The end may be nigh \u2013 apocalyptically so, for the residents of Hawkins \u2013 but get ready for one hell of a final campaign.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Stranger Things 5 cover<\/a> story \u2013 going to the Duffer brothers\u2019 HQ to get the inside scoop on the final season, and speaking to Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Jamie Campbell Bower and more for a new oral history of the show \u2013 in the December 2025 issue, on sale Thursday 23 October. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Stranger Things 5 comes to Netflix<\/a> from 27 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all started with a Dungeons & Dragons campaign; four kids in a basement in Hawkins, Indiana, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-218541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}