Stranger Things: Writing for Season 5 has begun

The citizens of Hawkins are one step closer to their final battle as the Stranger Things writers’ room has officially begun the fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series.

The official Twitter account for the show’s writers’ room, @StrangerWriters, announced the news on Tuesday. In a tweet titled “Day 1,” the account posted an image of a whiteboard emblazoned with last season’s logo.

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— Stranger Writers (@strangerwriters) August 2, 2022

Season 4 of Matt and Ross Duffer’s nostalgic sci-fi series ended on a major cliffhanger as the season’s main villain Vecna ​​(Jamie Campbell Bower) was temporarily defeated but succeeded in his plan to destroy the dark Otherworld of Upside down to merge with the sleepy Indiana town of Hawkins. The final season will likely see the large ensemble cast fighting to protect the general populace and trying to destroy the Upside Down for good.

The fourth season of Stranger Things, which premiered in two series released in May and July, proved extremely popular, becoming Netflix’s most-streamed English-language television season and the second-most-streamed season after the Korean-language phenomenon Squid Game. The season also received 13 nominations at this year’s Emmy Awards, including Best Drama Series.

Stranger Things features a large ensemble cast including Bower, Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Noah Schnapp, Winona Ryder, Joe Keery, Natalie Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Cara Buono, Priah Ferguson, Brett Gelman, and Eduardo Franco. The Duffer brothers are executive producers Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, Iain Paterson and Curtis Gwinn.