Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

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NetworkNetflix

Why it matters

Netflix's flagship ends here, after nearly a decade of defining what a streaming tentpole looks like.

About Stranger Things

Stranger Things ran on Netflix for nine years, from the 2016 season that made Hawkins, Indiana a fixture of television to a fifth and final run that closed the story out. The Duffer Brothers built it out of early-eighties Spielberg and Stephen King: a boy goes missing, a government laboratory turns out to be involved, and a girl with a shaved head and a nosebleed is the reason for all of it. It became the template Netflix spent the next decade trying to repeat.

The fifth season arrived in three parts across the winter of 2025 and 2026, with the finale released on January 1, 2026 and shown the same weekend in more than three hundred and fifty theaters in the United States and Canada. That is the end of the main story. Netflix has further work set in the same world, including an animated series and a stage play, but no additional season of the show itself has been announced.

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