Stranger Things Season 5: Netflix Series’ First Five Minutes Unveil The Chilling Event From Will’s 1983 Disappearance

Stranger Things Season 5: The final season of Netflix’s popular series will take the audience back to the beginning of the show. The streaming platform dropped the first five minutes of horror sci-fi, in which the viewers got a close look at what happened with Will Byers, whose disappearance shaped the story. The date is said to be November 12, 1983, just six days after he went missing. In the footage, Preteen Will (Noah Schnapp) can be seen singing The Clash's ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go’ to calm himself. But it didn’t work for him as he was shivering upside down. He got more petrified as a Demogorgon stormed in. When he puts up a good fight, Will has been dragged to meet the villainous Vecna.

“At long last. We can begin,” said Vecna, who was played by Jamie Campbell Bower, told him. “You and I, we will do such beautiful things together, William. Such beautiful things,” he added. Meanwhile, a tentacle latched onto Will’s face and sent a substance through his body.

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In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer said, “viewers would start to learn more about what happened and what the connection is to all of this and Vecna.”
Matt said specific questions that would be addressed. “So much of the season was built around the idea of coming full circle, answering many of the questions that were posed all the way back in season 1,” the filmmaker added. “I think the two biggest questions that we didn't really answer in season 1 that we do answer this season is: 'What is the Upside Down, truly?' and 'Why was Will taken?”

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Matt further added, “Because the story really began with Will and his disappearance, it felt, in order to go full circle, it needed to really end with him in so many ways. In the last couple seasons, we hadn't really centered much of the show on Will. So there was so much to explore with him from a character perspective and plot perspective.”

The first four episodes of Stranger Things season 5 will be dropped on Netflix on November 26. The next three episodes of Stranger Things Season 5 will be released on December 25 and the finale episode on December 31.