Earlier in the year, Netflix announced that Stranger Things would end in 2025. That’s just barely true, as Stranger Things Season 5 Episode 8, “The Rightside Up,” premieres on December 31, 2025. The episode is also available in theaters that same day.

The gate to the Upside Down has closed after 10 years and 5 seasons—but these films and series will fill the supernatural, nostalgic void left behind.

The final episode titled “The Rightside Up” wrapped up the stories of all the major characters after the group of Hawkins heroes went into the Abyss to defeat the Mind Flayer and kill Vecna.

Even though Steve wasn’t one of the most likely characters to meet the Grim Reaper in the Upside Down, the final trailer showed Dustin freaking out at something, so there was a death risk for Steve. So, when he fell off the tower in the Upside Down, it seemed entirely possible the first time around that he was going to die.

"Stranger Things" may be over, but a new spinoff is coming. Here’s what to know about the upcoming series in the same universe, including an important hint from the Season 5 finale.

The Stranger Things season 5 finale ended the hit Netflix show on a seriously emotional note, with the party gathering to play D&D one final time in a poignant mirror of the show's first scene.

So instead, upon seeing that Ted is alive and well, one only has to assume that his grief was entirely focused on Eleven, which then allows for his optimistic outlook to have peak impact. If he'd been too much of an emotional wreck during graduation day, it might have made his D&D-tethered theory sound far more desperate and nutty than idealistic.

Stranger Things has finally ended with the fifth season on December 31, 2025. Here, we have listed the best TV shows like Stranger Things.

Netflix is releasing a documentary about the making of season five of Stranger Things. It drops on January 12.