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Stranger Things Season 5 Episode Runtimes Finally Confirmed — And They Squash All the Rumors
Ross Duffer clarified episode lengths after rumors of two-hour runtimes, confirming Season 5 Volume 1 totals 4 hours and 31 minutes across four episodes.
- On Monday, Ross Duffer posted the actual runtimes in an Instagram video showing episode lengths on his Netflix screeners, confirming Volume One hits Netflix on November 26.
- Netflix fanpages on Facebook such as Netflix Updates run by Gamurs Group spread rumors saying runtimes would be `90 minutes to two hours`, prompting Ross Duffer to clarify actual lengths.
- Episode runtimes show precise lengths: The Crawl 1 hour 8 minutes, The Vanishing of _____ 54 minutes, The Turnbow Trap 1 hour 6 minutes, Sorcerer 1 hour 23 minutes, totaling 4 hours 31 minutes for Volume 1.
- Fans reacted online with mixed disappointment and surprise as Stranger Things fans noted episodes are longer than past seasons but not dramatically so, with some saying `I was kinda hoping for those 2 hr long episodes`.
- The final season is structured across three release dates and eight episodes, with Volume Two arriving on December 25, 2025, and the finale on December 31, 2025.
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'Stranger Things' Season 5 Isn’t As Long As We Thought
NetflixAs Stranger Things morphed from an upstart retro sci-fi series into a pop culture empire that includes an animated series and a Broadway show, its episodes grew longer and longer. Season 4 may have come out three years ago, but you probably remember some of its “episodes” ballooning to two-and-a-half hours long.With the show’s fifth and final season now just a little more than a month away, fans have speculated that its episodes will be s…
Stranger Things Season 5 Episode Runtimes Finally Confirmed — And They Squash All the Rumors
Remember those rumors about the Stranger Things Season 5 episode runtimes? Of course you do, they’ve been all over the internet for months — but now, co-creator Ross Duffer is setting the record straight on exactly how long each of the episodes of the final season will run.Duffer took to Instagram on Monday, October 13 to share a video that seemingly showed the episodes on a version of the Netflix streaming platform that labeled them works-in-pr…
No, the eight new episodes of Netflix's event series will not all last nearly two hours, contrary to rumours.
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