01/09/2026
Stranger Things is a Netflix original series created by the Duffer Brothers and produced by Monkey Massacre Productions along with 21 Laps Entertainment. The show premiered in July 2016, with subsequent seasons releasing in 2017, 2019, and 2022. Its fifth and final season arrived in three parts across November and December 2025, concluding with the finale on December 31. Blending horror, science fiction, mystery, and coming-of-age themes, the series has become a global pop-culture phenomenon.
Set in the 1980s, the story unfolds in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, where a young girl named Elevenβwho possesses psychokinetic powersβaccidentally opens a portal to a dangerous alternate world known as the Upside Down through secret government experiments. The ensemble cast features Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Jamie Campbell Bower, and several others.