Well, I feel rather foolish. I predicted a June 2024 release date. Here we are in December 2024 and there's no Season 5 in sight.
I do have an excuse. My post was in January 2023. In May 2023 there was the Writers Guild of America strike, which delayed writing of the show. Additionally, during that downtime, it was decided to rewrite some of the planned plots for the fifth and final season.
I can confirm one and one thing only: Stranger Things season 5 will air in 2025, and then be done. When in 2025? It is unlikely to be in the first half of the year. At the moment, the projected date I'm hearing is October 10, 2025. This is very loose and may change.
If you examine my plot spoilers from my 2023 post, you will notice that I was operating on information given to me before the final season's writing was modified. Therefore, some of it will likely end up inaccurate. However, I can be proud that I correctly predicted that Maya Hawke's Robin character will get with Season 4's Vickie character (Amybeth Mcnulty), who is now confirmed for Season 5. Will Byers coming out as gay is still rumored, but that has been closely kept under wraps, so I am not 100% sure they will go through with it, now that they are going to present the audience with a new happy gay couple.
I still believe that the majority of the plot points I listed will occur. If they do, you are free to search online to see if they were written anywhere else in January 2023. They were not. Stranger Things message boards would love this info, but I keep it exclusively for this little poker forum. I like it better that way.
Netflix is generally ramping down their scripted programming. They are not eliminating it, but they have lowered expenditures in this department, and it will continue moving in this direction.
It is time to put this show to bed anyway. It is getting repetitive and has lost direction. Season 1 was truly great, and the rest have struggled to match it. Reminds me a bit of Heroes, though not as extreme of a dropoff. I am a bit disappointed that Vecna is the end boss villain. I was hoping the head villain would be otherworldly, not an evil human with powers similar to that of Eleven, but that's what we got. In fact, we didn't even need a head villain. Why do so many of these horror films play like a video game?
