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Netflix has revealed the first look details of the fifth season of their hit TV show Stranger Things. The streaming service has released a behind-the-scenes video that shows the Hawkins family in character and a number of the sets being used in the final season.

The video shows actor Millie Bobby Brown speaking of how she was just ten years old when the show first started, and now she is pushing 20, which she admits “feels very weird”. Co-star Noah Schnapp also noted, “It’s just so exciting, I think this is going to be the best season yet.”

As of the time of writing, the final season of Stranger Things is around half way towards being completed, with Brown saying that the cast and crew expect to be finished around Christmas time this year. The fifth season of the show will premiere in 2025 if everything goes according to plan.

The show’s Maya Hawke recently stated in an interview with Podcrushed that the episodes of season five are longer than normal and that they will feel more like “eight movies”. Clearly, a lot of effort is being put into bringing Stranger Things to a glorious crescendo.

“Our showrunners, Matt and Ross [Duffer], take a lot of responsibility,” Hawke noted. “They have an amazing team of writers, but they’re very involved. They write a lot, and they are very intense and serious about the quality of the continued writing, and so it takes a long time to write each season and a long time to shoot them.”

The first look video also showed that three new actors will be joining the cast of Stranger Things, Nell Fisher, Jake Connelly and Alex Breaux. While fans of the show wait for the fifth and final season, there are also other projects in the universe in production.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow will take place live on stage in London’s West End, while there is also an untitled animated spinoff show in the works. The Duffer Brothers spoke in 2022 about responding to feedback about the fourth season and how it would influence the fifth.

“We’re like, ‘That’s cool, that’s cool. That could be a lot better. That could be a lot better,'” Matt Duffer told Netflix. “Even the ending is a little bit different [now]. A lot of the big ideas are the same, but the stuff that happens within, it’s very different.”