About a month ago, Netflix released a video marking the halfway point of filming on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Now, showrunner Ross Duffer has released a new cache of images giving us a behind-the-scenes look at things are going. It's captioned "Weeks 28-30." About a month ago, at the halfway point, it would have been Weeks 24-27. That means Stranger Things has roughly 20 weeks left in its filming schedule, which could take it into mid-January of 2025.
In other words, we still have a long while to wait before we get to see new episodes of Stranger Things, and this after it's already been two years since season 4 dropped. It's a good thing that the upcoming fifth season is the last, because if they wait much longer no one is going to buy the core of characters of actors as teenagers anymore.
in the meanwhile, we can enjoy these image dumps. Caleb McLaughlin takes pride of place as Lucas Sinclair, still sporting the same high-top haircut as in season 4. Season 5 will pick up immediately after season 4, so that makes sense. The interdimensional menace Vecna has punched a hole through the twisted Upside Down dimension into our reality, and now it's everybody's problem.
In the next picture, we see Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Brett Gelmen (Murray Bauman) and a dog who's kind of pulling focus. There's also a shot of an ominous door labeled "Restricted Area." In this seires, the government is always performing experiments where they trifle with things man has no business dealing with. I get the idea there's another one behind that door.
Maybe the weirdest shot is a close-up of a life-size doll in army fatigues, probably meant to stand in for a dead body; fighting interdimensional monsters is dangerous but someone's gotta do it. We get a shot of the inside of a derelict RadioShack, which is where beloved character Bob Newby (Sean Astin) used to work before he died tragically in season 2. And there are a couple of shots of the logo for WSQK, a radio station that looks like it will play a prominent part in the final scene. Someone's gotta tell the people what's going on!
Between the RadioShack and the radio station, these images remind us that Stranger Things is a 1980s period piece. We'll get one more heaping helping of the show before bows out. We don't have a release date yet, but if it doesn't come out in 2025, there will be riots.
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