Hawkins, Indiana, is about to be turned upside down…again.

stranger things Season 5 is coming to Netflix in 2025 and the series gave fans a hint of what to expect. in a preview released on Wednesday, November 6 (aka stranger things Day, or the day Will Byers disappeared in season 1).

Notably, the season will feature a one-year time jump, taking viewers to the fall of 1987, the year of fatal attraction“Livin’ on a Prayer” and Indiana Hoosier basketball.

That’s an 18-month jump from season 4, set in March 1986, which ended with the opening of the Upside Down in the fictional town of Hawkins. With the main castled by Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, port david and sadie sink Growing up, it wasn’t practical for the show to pick up exactly where it left off.

“Ideally we would have filmed (seasons 4 and 5) back to back, but there just wasn’t a feasible way to do it,” show co-creator. Ross Duffer said TV line in 2022.

While plot details remain scarce, the trailer revealed the episode titles of the last installment of the series. It will begin with “The Crawl,” followed by an episode whose title begins with “The Vanishing of,” with the victim’s name redacted. Fans were quick to notice that the title matches the name of the series premiere, “The Disappearance of Will Byers.”

The final title of the series, “The Rightside Up”, reflects the name of the Season 1 finale, “The Upside Down”.

The other five episodes are titled “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape From Camazotz,” and “The Bridge.”

Fans are now free to speculate on the meaning of the remaining titles. “The Turnbow Trap” appears to be a reference to Turnbow Land Development & Realty, a fictitious company in stranger things Universe, while “Shock Jock” likely references Hawkins’ local radio station WSQK.

“The Bridge” could be the most intriguing title, as it could represent a connection between worlds in the stranger things Universe.

The show’s cast has remained mum about what to expect, but Sink, 22, dropped a small hint over the summer.

Sink plays Max, who Eleven (Brown) brings back from the dead at the end of Season 4, although he remains in a coma until the end. Her most iconic scene in the series to date occurs when she flees the monster Vecna ​​and heads to the real world while her friends try to summon her back as Kate Bush“Running Up That Hill” plays in the background.

“They love me running,” she said Variety in a cover story published on August 8. “That’s all I’ll say.”