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The Stranger Things Podcast

TSTP 66- Season 5 Teaser Trailer Breakdown

The Stranger Things Podcast

Golden Spiral Media

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.5 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Netflix recently dropped a teaser trailer for Stranger Things Season 5, marking the beginning of the end for Netflix's beloved series. Set in fall 1987, this final season brings the ultimate showdown between Vecna's forces and Hawkins' determined heroes. For those of you who don't want any SPOILERS about this new season, stop reading and avoid this podcast episode.

The newly released trailer reveals familiar faces alongside newcomer Linda Hamilton as Dr. Kay, while showcasing Eddie Munson's grave, Max's hospital bed, and an army of demogorgons. Stranger Things Season 5 finds Hawkins scarred by rifts, under military quarantine, with Eleven forced into hiding as the government intensifies its hunt for her.

The climactic Stranger Things Season 5 will release in three volumes this holiday season: four episodes on November 26, three on Christmas Day, and the series finale on New Year's Eve 2025, all dropping at 5 pm PT. The Duffer Brothers promise a return to horror roots as our heroes unite with one goal: find and kill the vanished Vecna. The trailer's ominous tone raises fears for beloved characters' fates, though fans hope the power of friendship—and Eleven's abilities—will ultimately triumph against the darkness of the Upside Down in Stranger Things Season 5.

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0:00.0

The Stranger Things Podcast episode number 66.

0:04.8

Season 5, first trailer breakdown.

0:11.8

Hello and welcome to the Stranger Things podcast, a fan podcast dedicated to the Netflix original series.

0:25.8

Stranger Things.

0:28.9

I'm Daryl.

0:30.5

And I'm Addie.

0:32.0

We did it.

0:33.5

First try.

0:34.6

You were looking at me like, you thought I was going to fail on that.

0:36.9

I could read it in your eyes.

0:38.6

Yeah, I thought you were.

0:41.1

I mean, that's fair because when we did our, I don't know, we did a feedback episode.

0:47.7

It was last year sometime, right?

0:50.1

I don't know. It could have been like 12 years ago whenever they actually released the last thing.

0:54.6

Yeah, I'm pulling it up right now to see when our last episode aired.

0:58.4

But anyway, when we sat down to record that episode, it had been so long that I forgot like the...

1:04.5

The intro.

1:05.6

Yeah, like all the way that it all comes together.

1:08.3

Let's see, that was March of 2024. So, yeah, been almost a year and a half ago. Yeah, and you did it wrong. But I got it right this time. How are you? So, okay, it's been a year and a half. How old are you now? 22 and a half. 22 and a half. You're like 22 and 3 quarters.

1:28.7

Not that old.

1:29.7

Well, I guess I have that old though.

1:31.1

Yeah, you really are.

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