Stranger Things’ final four episode run times confirmed

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer has confirmed the run times for the final four episodes of the series.

• READ MORE: ‘Stranger Things’ season five, volume one review: the big, bold beginning of the end

Episodes five, six and seven will drop on Netflix at 5pm PT on Christmas Day (1am on Boxing Day in the UK), while the finale follows on New Year’s Eve at the same time (1am on New Years Day in the UK).

The final episodes in length are fairly similar to those of the first half of the season, which arrived on Thanksgiving.

As per Ross Duffer’s Instagram, episode five, ‘Shock Jock’, will run for one hour and eight minutes, while episode six, ‘Escape From Camazotz’ runs for one hour and 15 minutes. Episode seven, ‘The Bridge’, lasts one hour and six minutes and series finale ‘The Rightside Up’ is two hours and seven minutes long. This is now slightly shorter than season four’s two-hour-22-minute finale ‘The Piggyback’, which remains the show’s longest episode.

In a four-star review of volume one, NME wrote: “Perhaps inevitably, volume one feels a lot like an appetiser for the rest of the season. But even in piecemeal form, Stranger Things has a flair for epic and emotionally resonant storytelling. After all those years, this smart, big-hearted sci-fi show still has the power to turn your head upside down.”

In other news, Jamie Campbell Bower made a surprise appearance last week at the Broadway spinoff The First Shadow.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow is set in 1959 and follows younger versions of Jim Hopper, Bob Newby and Henry Creel, but on this occasion, Campbell Bower showed up as an adult version of Henry, to a rapturous reception from the Broadway audience.

In the scene, the adult Henry comes face-to-face with the young Eleven at Dr. Brenner’s lab.

The First Shadow premiered in 2023 at London’s Phoenix Theatre, with an official synopsis reading: “Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries. Young Jim Hopper’s car won’t start, Bob Newby’s sister won’t take his radio show seriously and Joyce Maldonado just wants to graduate and get the hell out of town.”

“When new student Henry Creel arrives, his family finds that a fresh start isn’t so easy… and the shadows of the past have a very long reach.”