Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 Trailer Teases Shock Reveals, Insists Everything We've Ever Assumed About the Upside Down Has Been 'Dead Wrong'

The archetypal trailer for Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 2 has teased daze reveals for the Netflix amusement and answers to questions fans person been asking for years.

Warning! Spoilers for Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1 follow:

The trailer picks up successful the aftermath of the catastrophic events of Vol. 1 and the awakening of Will’s powers. Will (Noah Schnapp) and his mother, Joyce (Winona Ryder), person a bosom to bosom successful which she reassures him the conflict against Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) isn’t over.

Meanwhile, Holly (Nell Fisher) and Max (Sadie Sink) are trying to flight what we judge to beryllium Vecna’s 1950s phantasy world, and they’re walking done unusual doors to bash it.

Then we get what I deliberation is the slayer punctuation from the trailer, which comes from Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo): “this full time, everything we’ve ever assumed astir the Upside Down has been dormant wrong.”

Dustin and Steve (Joe Keery) are past seen looking astatine immoderate benignant of red, perchance dimensional wide that is whirling astir supra them. Whatever this is, it seems cardinal to knowing the existent quality of the Upside Down, which Stranger Things co-creators Ross and Matt Duffer person promised to explicate successful this 5th and last episode.

Elsewhere, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) calls connected Kali/Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), who she rescued from captivity by the subject successful Vol. 1, to assistance her find and termination Vecna. We spot shots of Vecna / Henry Creel successful assorted states arsenic the cardinal characters go progressively distressed. Briefly, we spot Will usage his caller powers again, arsenic evidenced by his eyes turning each achromatic arsenic they did astatine the extremity of Vol. 1. Clearly, this is each gearing up for a large last showdown.

Ross Duffer took to Instagram past week to outline what to expect from Vol. 2. Episode 5, titled Shock Jock, picks up moments aft the extremity of Sorcerer. Frank Darabont directed this one, though Duffer said Shock Jock is “far darker, and acold scarier” than Darabont's erstwhile episode, Turnbow Trap.

Episode 6 is called Escape from Camazotz, which was directed by Shawn Levy. “It’s the biggest occurrence of the three,” Duffer said, “and the performances marque america outcry each clip we ticker it.” It sounds similar we mightiness get a quality decease successful this one. And based connected the name, the occurrence volition revolve astir Holly and Max’s effort to interruption escaped from the caput situation created by Vecna.

And finally, Episode 7 is called The Bridge, which the Duffer brothers co-directed with Levy. “Don’t privation to accidental excessively much, but speech from the finale, it’s astir apt the astir affectional section of the season,” Ross Duffer teased. More quality deaths, perhaps?

Even with this trailer, we person a fig of lingering burning questions. We spot immoderate benignant of powerfulness question alert crossed the entity of the Upside Down. What is its purpose? Is Vecna really the eventual villainous powerfulness successful Stranger Things, oregon is it the Mind Flayer? And, arsenic the trailer teases, what is the Upside Down really?

Where this is each going successful Volume 2 is simply a substance of aggravated speculation among fans — and thing we present astatine IGN person discussed ourselves (check retired our article, Stranger Things Season 5: Our Biggest Burning Questions After Episodes 1-4, to find retired more).

Stranger Things Season 5 debuts connected Netflix successful 3 parts. The archetypal 4 episodes arrived for the Thanksgiving vacation connected November 26. The adjacent 3 episodes premiere connected Christmas Day, and the bid finale volition debut connected the streamer and successful implicit 350 theaters nationwide connected New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things Season 5 merchandise dates:

• VOL 1 - November 26, 5pm PT
• VOL 2 - Christmas, 5pm PT
• THE FINALE - New Year’s Eve, 5pm PT

We’ve got plentifulness much connected Stranger Things, including Ross Duffer’s telephone to arms for fans to crook disconnected “garbage” TV settings earlier watching Season 5. And beryllium definite to cheque retired our Stranger Things: Season 5, Vol. 1 spoiler review.

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