Stranger Things;s creator Duffer brothers made statements about the 5th and final season of the series. Stranger Things;s final season, which will end the story, will be different than Season 4.
Although the 4th season of the series consisted of 9 episodes, the total duration was exactly 13 hours. The 7th episode was 1 hour and 40 minutes, and the final episode was 2 hours and 22 minutes.
Matt and Ross Duffer say they’ll be shortening episode lengths in the final season: “I think we’re going to target eight episodes. We don’t want to do 13 hours of work. It’s going to be something more like 10 hours. It’s going to be longer than the first season because we have a lot of pieces to finalize, but it won’t be as long as season 4.”
However, this does not mean that the whole season will consist of short episodes. In fact, Duffers said that the final episode will be the longest episode we’ve ever seen, competing with feature films. Duffers likened it to 2003’s The Return of the King, which was over 3 hours long.
Matt Duffer jokes that this final episode will be as long as the season 4 finale, “like Return of the King, it will have eight endings.” He explains what he means by that:
“If you watched Return of the King, it felt like there was a lot of end in it. If you watch all the movies back-to-back, which I’ve done many times, it all feels so right. If that movie was shorter, it would have felt cheap and wrong.”
The Duffer brothers will begin writing season 5 this summer.
