Some fans don't think that everything in the "Stranger Things 5" finale is as it seems based on certain details, and Netflix may have a surprise in store.

Netflix users spent 325.6 million hours watching season five last week — not counting those who went to movie theaters to watch the final episode on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The finale made an estimated $20 million to $25 million in revenue for theater chains over those two days.

"Stranger Things" ended with a ratings splash, with its finale catapulting Season 5 to become Netflix's 9th most English-language series ever.

A "Stranger Things" Season 5 documentary is coming to Netflix. "Now that you’ve seen the Stranger Things crew embark on their final mission, watch how the epic final season came together, in the upcoming documentary One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5, " a post on Netflix companion site Tudum reads.

The show, which ran for nine years, aired its final season in three installments, which were respectively released on Nov. 26, 2025; Dec. 25, 2025; and Dec. 31, 2025. The "Stranger Things" documentary will be released on Netflix, as did the series.

The two-hour finale of Stranger Things, released in the evening of New Year’s Eve, fueled Netflix to its most views ever on a New Year's Day. The streamer would not reveal how many those views were but announced that the entire fifth season of the supernatural series delivered 31.

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.

For this edition, Johnson spoke with Sarah Hindsgaul and Eryn Krueger Mekash, the hair designer and makeup department head for season five of Stranger Things. As you might guess, spoilers ahead. Stranger Things has come to an epic conclusion after five seasons,

Stranger Things Season 5 has fans of the Netflix show wanting Jamie Campbell Bower to play an iconic villain in the DCU. Bower is known for playing Henry Creel, better known as Vecna, in Netflix’s Stranger Things.

Joyce Byers may have been responsible for one of the Stranger Things season 5 finale's most dramatic moments when she finally took down Vecna for good, but Winona Ryder thought it best not to rehearse the scene. In fact, she thought it was important that they nailed it in just a few takes so that all of the emotion felt as real as possible.