BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — David Harbour is apologetic.
“Sorry, we’ve ruined every holiday for you – Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve. It’s okay. The finale’s only three and a half hours. You can still go out afterwards,” Harbour says of how the final season of “Stranger Things” will be shown.
“Stranger Things 5” will be available on the streaming service of Netflix starting Nov. 26 with episodes 501-504. The second batch of episodes 505-507 will be released on Dec. 25 with the final episode on Dec. 31. All episodes will be available at 5 p.m.
The final season will wrap up the story of the seemingly normal Midwestern town of Hawkins, IN. It all started after a boy vanished into thin air and his close-knit group of friends and family searched for answers. They were pulled into a high-stakes and deadly series of events in a world known as the Upside Down.
It is now the fall of 1987 and residents of Hawkins are scarred by the opening of the Rifts. The young heroes are united by a single goal to find and kill Vecna. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
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Harbour admits he exaggerated in terms of the length of the final episode, but he is not boasting when he says the scripts for the final season will surprise fans. He describes the last season as “really deep and rich.”
Brown looks back at the four previous seasons playing Eleven as building to this season. That is particularly true for her with all the time she and Harbour’s character spent bonding as daughter and father.
“I think in season five, it’s very funny how easily we slip into the father-daughter role. Eleven’s able to bite back at him and he’s able to bite back at her,” Brown says. “They have this shorthand that I think is really unique in the show.
“When people come up to me and talk about Eleven, it’s always pretty much within the same sentence that they say, that they love the dynamic between Hopper and El. And I think it’s really inspiring. Because what person has a relationship with any of their parental figures that’s absolutely perfect?”
That relationship plus all of the others in the series debuted in 2016 and quickly became one of Netflix’s most popular television series. The fourth season had more than 140.7 million views globally. The series has also earned more than 70 awards worldwide including Emmys and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. It has been nominated for over 230 awards.
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Executive producer Shawn Levy is convinced the popularity of the series comes from the combination of the epic and the intimate.
“I think that as much as people talk about the 80s and the Demogorgons and the darkness and the genre influences, we wouldn’t be what we’ve become if we didn’t invest in these characters the way that we do both in terms of how we tell the story and the way the story is received,” Levy says. “I think it’s that kind of conjoined duality of the epic, the big and the small, the loud and the quiet.
“That is its sort of special ingredient.”
The relationships between the characters are what Noah Schnapp – who plays Will Byers – calls the strength of the series. He saw how important the chemistry had to be with all the actors as far back as the initial auditions.
That natural chemistry then gets amplified by the freedom the actors get once they get to the set.
Schnapp says, “It reads on screen and not just our dialogue that’s scripted, but the improv that kind of happens in the moment that we get to do. Because we love each other and because we feel comfortable with each other, it allows for moments like that to shine. And I’m so grateful that we all do kind of work so well together and get along because it makes the job easier.”
Brown echoes that by adding that while the series works because of the strong ensemble, each actor also gets to shine as individuals. A lot of that individual work is showing how all the players are outcasts in some form.
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“People and audiences can feel connected to that flawed person, that person that just brings a little bit of – Robin or El or Hopper or Joyce – I feel incredibly connected to this person. When we’re on set, I don’t feel like there’s any perfect person,” Brown says.
The finale of the “Stranger Things 5” is bigger than television can hold it. The finale will be shown in more than 350 movie theaters in the United States and Canada.
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