Entertainment TV Scripted TV Shows Stranger Things Confirms Season 5 Time Jump as Final Episode Titles Are Revealed: 'One Last Adventure Begins' Netflix confirmed the final season will premiere in 2025 and revealed the episode titles for the eight final chapters By Julia Moore Julia Moore Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. People Editorial Guidelines Published on November 6, 2024 10:24AM EST Comments It's the beginning of the end in Hawkins. On Nov. 6, Netflix released the first teaser for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, confirming that "one last adventure begins" when the series premieres in 2025. The teaser, released aptly on Stranger Things Day, revealed the episode titles for the eight final chapters of the story: "The Crawl;" "The Vanishing of ___;" "The Turnbow Trap;" "Sorcerer;" "Shock Jock;" "Escape From Camazotz;" "The Bridge;" and the series finale will be titled "The Rightside Up." The teaser also confirmed that season 5 will pick up "in the Fall of 1987," a time jump from season 4, which took place in the spring of 1986. Why Millie Bobby Brown Has 'Real Fear' When Acting with Jamie Campbell Bower on Stranger Things Production on the highly-anticipated final season began in January, which Netflix revealed by sharing a photo of the entire cast — including core stars Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo and Noah Schnapp, as well as David Harbour, Winona Ryder and the show's creators, The Duffer Brothers. Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Priah Ferguson, Cara Buono, Amybeth McNulty and Brett Gelman were also pictured, as well as Jamie Campbell Bower, who joined the cast in season 4 as the newest villain, Vecna. Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler and Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in 'Stranger Things'. Courtesy of Netflix In July, the streamer released a first look at the final season and revealed some new additions to the cast — Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux, who all join in unnamed roles. Creators Matt and Ross Duffer said in the video that they were "about halfway through filming" and there was "so much going on." 'Stranger Things' season 5. stranger things/youtube Gaten Matarazzo Wants a 'Time-Turner' as Stranger Things Nears End: 'Almost' Been Doing Show 'Longer Than I Haven't' The cast, meanwhile, reflected on the kaleidoscope of emotions they've been feeling as the series end approaches, with Sink, 22, saying they're "savoring every single moment" and Matarazzo, 22, admitting the show has become "home." "I started when I was 10, I'm now turning 20 years old," Brown, 20, said. "Feels very weird." Schnapp, also 20, teased that season 5 "is going to be the best season yet" and Bower agreed as he said that "season 4 was big" but "season 5 definitely feels bigger." Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers, and Eduardo Franco as Argyle in 'Stranger Things' season 4. Courtesy of Netflix Though not much is known about what adventure season 5 will bring, Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper, said that the series finale "is the best episode they've ever done." "They land the plane," he said at Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast's 10th anniversary last month. “The end of this episode when we were reading it — just us reading it — about halfway through, people started crying,” he said. “Then about the last 20 minutes, it was just uncontrollably crying, waves of different people.." Noah Schnapp Says Winona Ryder Has Always Been a 'Protective, Motherly Figure' on Stranger Things Set Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard in 'Stranger Things' season 4. Netflix Harbour, 49, continued, “I think part of that also is the fact that these kids, it was their childhood. Like, they started the show when they were 11 and 12, and here we are reading [the finale]. It's 10 years later, and we examine that idea, and it's so well done and so beautiful." “It's such a great episode, and it's such a great season," he added. "You guys will love it." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Stranger Things seasons 1-4 can be streamed on Netflix. Close