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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) \u2014 David Harbour is apologetic.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry, we\u2019ve ruined every holiday for you \u2013 Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year\u2019s Eve.\u00a0 It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 The finale\u2019s only three and a half hours.\u00a0 You can still go out afterwards,\u201d Harbour says of how the final season of \u201cStranger Things\u201d will be shown.<\/p>\n
\u201cStranger Things 5\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Buy a ticket to see sweet \u2018Rental Family\u2019 <\/a><\/p>\n 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 \u201creally deep and rich.\u201d<\/p>\n 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\u2019s character spent bonding as daughter and father.<\/p>\n \u201cI think in season five, it\u2019s very funny how easily we slip into the father-daughter role. Eleven\u2019s able to bite back at him and he\u2019s able to bite back at her,\u201d Brown says. \u201cThey have this shorthand that I think is really unique in the show.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen people come up to me and talk about Eleven, it\u2019s always pretty much within the same sentence that they say, that they love the dynamic between Hopper and El.\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s really inspiring.\u00a0 Because what person has a relationship with any of their parental figures that\u2019s absolutely perfect?\u201d<\/p>\n That relationship plus all of the others in the series debuted in 2016 and quickly became one of Netflix\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Ted Danson admits steeping with \u2018Inside\u2019 co-star <\/a><\/p>\n Executive producer Shawn Levy is convinced the popularity of the series comes from the combination of the epic and the intimate.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that as much as people talk about the 80s and the Demogorgons and the darkness and the genre influences, we wouldn\u2019t be what we\u2019ve become if we didn\u2019t 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,\u201d Levy says. \u201cI think it\u2019s that kind of conjoined duality of the epic, the big and the small, the loud and the quiet.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is its sort of special ingredient.\u201d<\/p>\n The relationships between the characters are what Noah Schnapp \u2013 who plays Will Byers \u2013 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.<\/p>\n That natural chemistry then gets amplified by the freedom the actors get once they get to the set.<\/p>\n Schnapp says, \u201cIt reads on screen and not just our dialogue that\u2019s scripted, but the improv that kind of happens in the moment that we get to do.\u00a0 Because we love each other and because we feel comfortable with each other, it allows for moments like that to shine.\u00a0 And I\u2019m so grateful that we all do kind of work so well together and get along because it makes the job easier.\u201d<\/p>\n 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 \u00a0the players are outcasts in some form.<\/p>\n