Stranger Things 5 ​​Set to release in 2025, episode titles

The fifth and final season of “Stranger Things” will debut in 2025, Netflix announced Wednesday. To celebrate November 6, 1983, aka “Stranger Things Day” — the day Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) was abducted in the Upside Down — the streamer also released a video reveals the titles of the final eight episodes, which conclude the supernatural story of Hawkins, Indiana.

The episode titles are “The Crawl”, “The Vanishing of…”, “The Turnbow Trap”, “Sorcerer”, “Shock Jock”, “Escape From Camazotz”, “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up”.

Some of these titles allude to previous episodes: “The Vanishing of…”—revealed with the name completely obscured—invokes the series premiere “The Vanishing of Will Byers.” Fans online have already speculated that the new abductee could be Holly Wheeler, the younger sister of Mike (Finn Wolfhard), who was reportedly recast with “Evil Dead Rise” actress Nell Fisher, but Netflix has not officially confirmed.

The Season 1 finale was titled “The Upside Down,” the name of the phantasmagoric alternate dimension associated with Hawkins, so it’s fitting that the series finale’s title, “The Rightside Up,” is the reverse. And the penultimate episode title, “The Bridge,” evokes curious titles like Season 4’s “The Piggyback” and Season 2’s “The Gate.”

Other titles seem to introduce new vocabulary into the “Stranger Things” world. “The Turnbow Trap” likely refers to a Hawkins business called Turnbow Land Development & Realty; Series co-creator Ross Duffer posted an Upside Down-ified billboard for the company on Instagram in March. “Shock Jock,” meanwhile, likely refers to WSQK, a radio station that pops up (again, courtesy of posts from Ross Duffer) to be part of the season.

Then there’s “Escape From Camazotz,” which is presumably a reference to Madeleine L’Engle’s seminal sci-fi novel “A Wrinkle in Time,” in which the planet Camazotz is under the unyielding control of malevolent entities known as the Black Thing and DET. What Camazotz is referring to in “Stranger Things” and who could escape from it is yet to be seen.

The most delightful detail in the video is undoubtedly the reveal that the season takes place in the fall of 1987, four years after the events of the first season – which debuted eight years ago, in 2016.

UPDATE: The “Stranger Things” social media accounts posted more behind the scenes photos from the season that includes stars Wolfhard, Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, David Harbor and Winona Ryder.

Watch the full teaser video here: