Happy Thursday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once more.
On today’s episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over the official announcement that Stranger
Things 5, the final season of the Netflix flagship series, will only have 8 episodes.
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Earlier today, the Stranger Writers account on Twitter shared with us this exciting image of a
grid on their white board, the same board where a few weeks ago, they drew a big Stranger Things 5
logo to announce beginning of the pre-production stage of the final season. Based on this picture,
it seems like season 5 will only have 8 episodes, much like seasons 1 and 3. Excuse me if I sound
like a spoiled brat, but I really was hoping for 9 episodes again, or at the very least feature
length episodes like the ones in season 4. Even though the photo has 8 episodes being on a grid,
some fans have speculated on social media that this is just what they are showing us for now and
that there could still be something after episode 8. I think that is wishful thinking at this point.
The Duffers seem really determined to go back to the formula of season 1,
and with the exception of a feature length 8th episode for the series finale,
all the other episodes will most likely be 50 or so minutes like in the first 3 seasons.
As a matter of fact, about a month ago, the brothers were very adamant about trying to
do 8 episodes in season 4, and that the pandemic caused the lengths of the episodes to get bigger.
Here’s what Matt Duffer said in an interview with Collider right after the release of Volume 2:
"We thought Season 4 was going to be eight episodes, and they were going to
be regular length. So if you had interviewed us before four, that's what I would've said.
I think we're aiming for eight again. We don't want it to be 13 hours. We're aiming
for more like 10 hours or something. I think it's going to be longer than Season 1 because
we just have so much to wrap up, but I don't think it's going to be as long as Season 4."
The optimist and the nerd in me hopes that season 5 is 11 hours long,
because why the hell not. This will be the last time that we’ll see all of these characters,
and I hope that they go out with a Big Bang. The good news here is that with 8 episodes,
production will be shorter than how it was for season 4, meaning that season 5 could arrive
earlier than expected. I still don’t think that Stranger Things 5 will come out in 2023 because
otherwise, production would have started by now, but this news makes me think that summer
2024 is most likely the goal here. We should be getting more news in the coming months about the
final season of this great series. Netflix is doing another Tudum event in late September,
which makes me wonder if they will give us more updates for Stranger Things season 5
in that convention, just like how they revealed a teaser for season 4 there last year.
With all of that said, I am a bit disappointed that there will be shorter episodes in season 5
and the episode count is less than season 4, but I trust the creators with what they’re doing.
Here’s hoping that Stranger Things 5 is the best season of the show. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today.
What do you think about this new update for Stranger Things season 5?
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