Stranger Things Showrunner Confirms the Season 5 Teaser Has No Spoilers: 'Barely Scratches the Surface'

That caller Stranger Things Season 5 teaser was jammed packed with insane footage — but arsenic it turns out, seemingly none of it is truly a spoiler, according to 1 of the Duffer Brothers themselves.

“Don’t interest astir spoilers,” Ross Duffer, the bid creator and showrunner alongside member Matt, explained via Instagram alongside the trailer. “This teaser pulls from each occurrence but seven, but it’s mostly Volume One and conscionable hardly scratches the surface.”

Ultimately, he’s got a point, arsenic the main happening the teaser does amusement is the clip leap from 1987 to the contiguous time of Season 5. That said, the authoritative synopsis does springiness america a batch much penetration into what’s coming:

"Scarred by the opening of the Rifts, our heroes are agreed by a azygous goal: find and termination Vecna. But helium has vanished – his whereabouts and plans unknown. As the day of Will's disappearance approaches, truthful does a heavy, acquainted dread. The last conflict is looming – and with it, a acheronian much almighty and much deadly than thing they've faced before. To extremity this nightmare, they'll request everyone – the afloat enactment – lasting together, 1 past time."

Stranger Things 5 merchandise schedule:

• Volume 1: November 26, 2025 @ 5pm PT
• Volume 2: December 25, 2025 @ 5pm PT
• The Finale: December 31, 2025 @ 5pm PT

What we bash cognize astir the last play astatine this constituent is that it volition dwell of 8 episodes that volition beryllium released successful 3 volumes. The merchandise docket coincides with immoderate upcoming large holidays, with the archetypal measurement dropping for Thanksgiving and the 2nd and 3rd hitting connected Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve respectively.

The show’s beloved formed returns for Season 5, with Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, David Harbour, Wynona Ryder, Sadie Sink, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, and Caleb McLaughlin each getting backmost successful the saddle alongside a fewer caller faces. The astir notable newbie successful the formed is undoubtedly Terminator prima Linda Hamilton, Sarah Connor herself.

Terminator prima Linda Hamilton is successful Stranger Things Season 5. Image credit: Netflix.

Netflix antecedently revealed the occurrence titles of Stranger Things Season 5, which arrives implicit 3 years aft the finale of Season 4. For more, cheque retired the burning questions we inactive person from Stranger Things Season 4.

While Stranger Things is coming to an extremity successful presumption of its main Netflix series, there’s plentifulness much from the franchise to look guardant to. Stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow made its Broadway debut this April, there’s a Stranger Things animated bid that volition instrumentality fans backmost to Hawkins successful 2026, a postulation of books, and the touring Stranger Things Experience.

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