Stranger Things Showrunner Squashes Rumors of Long Runtimes For Season 5 Episodes

Once again, it looks similar those net rumors are proving to be, you guessed it, untrue. Stranger Things creator and showrunner Ross Duffer made it a constituent to squash the speculation astir the runtimes for the upcoming Season 5 episodes that started online.

"Lol not adjacent adjacent to accurate," 1 fractional of the Duffer Brothers explained via his Instagram stories, including thing other successful his connection different than the graphic with the fake, elongated runtimes to exemplify his point.

In the archetypal post, which was seen making its mode astir Twitter recently, it shows astir episodes clocking successful astatine 2 and a fractional hours oregon more, with immoderate adjacent hitting beyond 3 hours — a mostly absurd conception for conscionable 1 occurrence of a TV series, fto unsocial an full season. The graphic was faked to look similar it came straight from Netflix arsenic well, which was capable to fool galore fans online for a play of time.

Some of what indispensable person bolstered the rumor is what formed members person antecedently said astir the runtime of the finale episodes. Maya Hawke revealed during an occurrence of Podcrushed past twelvemonth that season 5 volition beryllium "basically 8 movies" with "very long" episodes, portion Finn Wolfhard told Collider successful January that "not each occurrence is similar a full-blown movie, but determination are decidedly immoderate episodes this twelvemonth that the runtime is decidedly film-length."

For what it’s worth, Ross Duffer successful peculiar has been vocal astir Season 5 lately, taking to societal media to besides quell assemblage worries astir spoilers for the last season. “Don’t interest astir spoilers,” helium wrote successful an Instagram grid station that included the caller teaser trailer. “This teaser pulls from each occurrence but 7, but it’s mostly Volume One and conscionable hardly scratches the surface.”

Volume One of Stranger Things play 5 premieres connected Netflix connected November 26.

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