Netflix Drops the Epic, Nearly 3-Minute Long Trailer for “Stranger Things” Season 5

The official trailer for the 5th and final season of Stranger Things has arrived, opening with a shot of the seemingly immortal Vecna intoning We can begin. At nearly three minutes long, this is the kind of meaty, bombastic look at the final season of what has inarguably been one of the defining shows in Netflix’s history. The trailer gives you a sense of the massive size and scope of the final season, which co-creator Ross Duffer said took a year a filming and involved capturing more than 650 hours of footage. “It’s like eight blockbuster movies,” Duffer said. By the looks of this trailer, that seems accurate.

The stakes are as high as they’ve ever been in season 5. We’re now in the fall of 1987, and that punching bag for all things supernatural, Hawkins, Indiana, has been changed forever by the opening of the Rifts. This means our heroes have a very simple, if terrifying, goal—to kill Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). But to do that, they’ll need to find him first.

There are problems aplenty. The military is quarantining our heroes as the government searches for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), while the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches and brings with it a familiar foreboding. The end is nigh, but whose end will it be? 

Joining the aforementioned cast in the final season are series regulars Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), Priah Ferguson (Erica Sinclair), Brett Gelman (Murray), Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler), Amybeth McNulty (Vickie), Nell Fisher (Holly Wheeler), Jake Connelly (Derek Turnbow), Alex Breaux (Lt. Akers), and Linda Hamilton (Dr. Kay).

Netflix has already announced the titles for the final eight-episode season:  “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of [censored for now],” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” “The Bridge,” and “The Rightside Up.” Volume 1 of the final season premieres on November 26, while Volume 2 arrives on Christmas.

Check out the trailer below: