After myriad delays, including the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, the fifth and final season of Netflix's Stranger Things is back up and running. Production is well underway, and the cast and crew are beginning to tease the exciting endgame to come.
We've had newcomer Linda Hamilton — famous for playing Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise — play it coy about her mysterious character, and Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) chat about the "unbelievable" final episodes. Most recently, Finn Wolfhard (Mike) weighed in on the final season. “We’re about three months in, and it’s really crazy,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.
In season 4, Stranger Things expanded to new horizons. Some of it took place in the quaint town of Hawkins, Indiana, like usual. But some of the characters were now in California and others in the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. Expanding like this came with benefits and drawbacks as the cast was split up.
"Not being around everyone all the time was definitely a bummer about filming 4," Wolfhard explained, adding that the final season returns to Hawkins as the focal point. "But 5 is the opposite.”
"We’re all together all the time, and a bunch of us live around the corner and across the street from each other in real life. So the cast is really seeing each other a lot, and we’re in a lot of the same scenes, which has been really great"
"Leader Mike" moments are coming in Stranger Things 5
As for his character Mike, Wolfhard teases some epic moments. “There some ‘leader Mike’ moments," he said, revealing that some parts of the story will harken back to season 1. “This last season is sort of a crossroads, and so we’re getting back into a lot of the dynamics of season 1, which is really fun.”
Lastly, he explained that the final season feels "isolated" compared to the worldwide scope of its predecessor. So expect a lot more of Hawkins, which is where we left our characters in season 4. In the final moments of that season, the hellish Upside Down landscape began to spill into Hawkins. However, now the group is all together; can they stop this invasion?
Stranger Things season 5 doesn't have a release date yet. Given that it's still in production, don't expect to see it hit screens anytime soon. Perhaps sometime in 2025.
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