Netflix has launched the primary 5 minutes of Stranger Issues Season 5, and it appears the ultimate season of the hit sci-fi journey collection will take followers again to the very starting of Will Byers’ horrible time spent within the Upside Down.
The upcoming season kicks off by revealing what actually occurred to Will within the Upside Down after he disappeared the evening of November 6, 1983. Because it seems, Will bravely held his personal for fairly awhile, and even encountered Vecna lengthy earlier than the opposite youngsters did in Season 4.
The clip, launched late Thursday (November 6), begins with younger Will curled up in Citadel Byers, softly singing The Conflict’s “Ought to I Keep or Ought to I Go” to himself. All hell breaks free when a Demogorgon immediately bursts into the hut, and Will goes operating by the darkish, twisted woods of the Upside Down. After climbing a tree to security, the monster finds him, and he leaps to a different tree out of desperation, solely to fall tumbling to the bottom the place he’s dragged off.
We then see Will, unconscious, ensnared in vines contained in the Hawkins Public Library—precisely the place Joyce and Hopper discovered him within the Upside Down on the finish of Season 1. The Demogorgon cowers away as Vecna seems and approaches the little boy, attaching a vine to his mouth that begins to feed darkish particles to him. “In the end we are able to start. You and I, we’re going to do such lovely issues collectively, William,” Vecna tells Will, earlier than the scene cuts to black.
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Launched on October 30, the official Season 5 trailer already hinted that Will will play a giant function this season as his connection to Vecna—and use as Vena’s pawn—turns into extra obvious.
“Will, you’ll assist me… one final time,” Vecna tells Will within the trailer, utilizing his telekinetic powers to raise the teenager off the bottom and towards him menacingly.
Followers have lengthy theorized that Vecna will use Will, who was tethered to the Thoughts Flayer in Season 2, in opposition to Eleven and his associates within the remaining season, and it appears that evidently will certainly be the case after Will spent a number of seasons sensing the Upside Down’s evil presence lurking within the background.
Season 5 takes place within the fall of 1987. Netflix’s official synopsis for the season reads:
Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single purpose: discover and kill Vecna. However he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the federal government has positioned the city beneath army quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her again into hiding. Because the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, acquainted dread. The ultimate battle is looming — and with it, a darkness extra highly effective and extra lethal than something they’ve confronted earlier than. To finish this nightmare, they’ll want everybody — the complete get together — standing collectively, one final time.
Stranger Issues Season 5 will probably be launched in three components: The primary 4 episodes will hit Netflix on November 26, the following three episodes will start streaming on Christmas (December 25), and the collection finale will air on New 12 months’s Eve (December 31).
Episodes will probably be obtainable to stream starting at 5PM PT/8PM ET on their respective dates.
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