Stranger Things Season 5 will only be 8 episodes long

The writers of popular sci-fi series Stranger Things have released new details about the fifth and final season of the show, and fans are not impressed.

Stranger Things writers have said that Season 5 of the popular sci-fi show will be its last, and it seems like the series conclusion isn’t going to be as long as many had hoped.

The “stranger writers” account on Twitter has remained active, even after the release of the fourth season of the show, Fox News reports.

While the page has been busy sharing scripts from popular past scenes, polls and behind-the-scenes photos and footage, it has started releasing titbits from the upcoming fifth season.

Last month, a picture of a whiteboard with Stranger Things written on the top with a number five behind it, captioned “Day 1,” marked start of the preparations for the fifth season.

But it was a follow-up post that really seemed to elicit mixed emotions from fans, portraying “Grid stage” of planning via a photo of a whiteboard with eight episodes listed at the top.

Grid stage pic.twitter.com/b8EmBsafUF

— stranger writers (@strangerwriters) August 25, 2022

A number of fans expressed disappointment that the last season will have a shorter format than Season 4.

Others took the opportunity to share what they wanted to happen during the final season of the show. One popular request was to bring back fan favourite Eddie Munson, played by British actor Joseph Quinn, following the popular theory that he’s not actually dead, just stuck in the upside down.

Fans want more Eddie Munson. Picture: Netflix.

The eight-episode format would mirror the first and third seasons of the show, while the second and fourth had nine.

During the show’s fourth season, the episodes were also longer, clocking in at over an hour, apart from the final three, which were movie-length specials rolled out on the streaming service.

Episode seven of the show was an hour and 40 minutes, the eighth was an hour and 27 minutes and the last episode was a whopping two hours and 22 minutes.

It is understood Season 5 will not be as long as the fourth. Picture: Netflix.

Writers Matt and Ross Duffer, known as The Duffer Brothers, spoke to The Hollywood Reporter last month about the long run times of Season 4 and hinted that the episodes won’t be quite as long in the final season, except for the series finale.

“I don’t think the run times will be as extreme in Season 5,” Matt told the outlet.

“We’re trying to return to the simplicity of the structure in Season 1, with bigger scale and scope. Except for the finale, which I’m expecting will be pretty massive.”

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