See trailer for season 5 of ‘Stranger Things’ as Netflix announces release dates

Netflix announced yesterday when it will release the final season of “Stranger Things,” but be prepared: it’s being released in three parts.

It’s been nine years of alternating between exciting episodes of the massively successful show and long stretches of waiting for new installments but it looks as if the end will really come in 2025. Netflix verifies on its website that this will be the final season.

According to a video announcement for season 5, watch above, the four episodes that make up “Volume 1” will drop Nov. 26, the three episodes in “Volume 2” on Christmas Day and the last episode, the “Finale,” on New Year’s Eve.

The video for the date announcement also serves as the first trailer for the last season, showing flashes of the show’s timeline through the first four seasons and few hints of what’s to come in season 5. The Netflix announcement says “it won’t be much longer now before your favorite nerds take on Vecna in what promises to be one last epic ride through Hawkins, Ind.”

The show has been largely filmed in small towns around Georgia, which collectively serve as Hawkins, the town where a ragtag group of kids take on the Upside Down, demogorgons and government conspiracies in the 1980s. Click here for a list of filming locations you can visit, including some from season 5.

The nostalgic sci-fi show created by the Duffy Brothers has garnered record viewership for Netflix.

The core cast will return. The children, now grown, are played by Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke. Winona Ryder and David Harbour return as the adults who aid the kids in their battles with monsters.