Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Stranger Things 5’ Runtimes Revealed for First Four Episodes

The stories about how long the episodes of Season 5 of *Stranger Things* will be have been greatly overblown.

Ross Duffer, who made the show with his brother Matt Duffer, shared the lengths of the first four episodes of the final season on his Instagram on Monday.
 The first episode, called "The Crawl," will be one hour and 8 minutes long. The second episode, which hasn't had its title shared yet, will be 54 minutes. The third episode, "The Turnbow Trap," will be one hour and 6 minutes. And the fourth episode, "Sorcerer," will be one hour and 23 minutes.

This information counters online rumors that said all episodes of Season 5 would be at least 90 minutes long, as well as a report from Puck News on October 6 that claimed the episodes would be between 90 minutes and two hours.


Since the show started in 2016, *Stranger Things* has mostly been around an hour per episode.
 But Season 4 was much longer: all but one episode was over 70 minutes, and the last three episodes were full-length films, with the finale going for two hours and 22 minutes.

Netflix is splitting Season 5 into three parts.
 The first four episodes will come out on November 26, during the Thanksgiving holiday, with "Sorcerer" acting as the mid-season end. The next three episodes will be released on Christmas, and the final episode, "The Rightside Up," will be available on New Year's Eve. The show will be directed by Shawn Levy and Frank Darabont, who directed *The Shawshank Redemption*. All the main cast members, including Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, and Maya Hawke, will be back for the last season.

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