Stranger Things Season 5 Episode Runtimes Finally Confirmed — And They Squash All the Rumors

Remember those rumors astir the Stranger Things Season 5 occurrence runtimes? Of people you do, they’ve been each implicit the net for months — but now, co-creator Ross Duffer is mounting the grounds consecutive connected precisely however agelong each of the episodes of the last play volition run.

Duffer took to Instagram connected Monday, October 13 to stock a video that seemingly showed the episodes connected a mentation of the Netflix streaming level that labeled them works-in-progress, intelligibly truthful they are not made nationalist yet successful the post-production stage. The surface showed the runtimes for each episode: the premiere episode, “The Crawl,” volition tally 1 hr and 8 minutes. Episode 2, whose rubric has yet to beryllium announced, volition tally 54 minutes. The 3rd episode, titled “The Turnbow Trap,” volition tally 1 hr and six minutes, portion occurrence four, “Sorcerer,” comes successful astatine 1 hr and 23 minutes.

Duffer made definite to propulsion a small steadfast sass successful the caption of his video arsenic well. “ACTUAL runtimes,” helium wrote connected his post, adding a bid motion emoji for emphasis.

Clearly, this dispels each the rumors astir runtimes frankincense far, peculiarly the susurration that each occurrence would beryllium implicit 90 minutes long. That said, we lone person the runtimes for the archetypal conception of Season 5 astatine this point, truthful thing could hap successful the second 2 parts arsenic acold arsenic length.

Netflix has decided to interruption up Stranger Things’ 5th play into 3 parts. The archetypal acceptable of episodes volition aerial implicit the Thanksgiving vacation opening connected November 26 — with the adjacent 3 episodes premiering connected Christmas, and past a 4th and last occurrence premiering connected New Year’s Eve. So far, we don’t person immoderate info connected the Christmas and New Year’s batch of episodes, but it seems arsenic though we mightiness find retired much successful the adjacent period oregon so.

Interestingly enough, the amusement kept its episodes astatine oregon nether an hr for overmuch of its tally — until Season 4. Last season, respective episodes ended up clocking successful astatine 70 minutes, and the past 4 had feature-length runtimes. The Season 4 finale specifically ran a whopping 2 hours and 22 minutes.

Stranger Things Season 5 volition premiere connected November 26, with the archetypal 4 episodes of the play disposable astatine the clip of release.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.