We're ten days away from the next episode of the fifth and final season of Stranger thingsand Netflix has released a new trailer for what it's calling Volume 2. This includes episodes five through seven, with the final episode Vol. 3.
(Spoilers for Season 5, Part 1 below.)
Season 4 ended with Vecna – the Big Bad behind it all – opening the portal that allowed the Upside Down to leak into Hawkins. We made a time jump for S5, Vol. 1, but in a way things came full circle, as these events coincided with the third anniversary of Will's original disappearance in S1.
In full. 1 we found Hawkins under military occupation and Vecna targeting a new group of young children in his human form under the pseudonym 'Mr. Whatsit' (a nod to A wrinkle in time). He kidnapped Holly Wheeler and took her to the Upside Down, where she found an ally in Max, who was still in a coma, but her consciousness is hiding in one of Vecna's old memories. Dustin struggled to cope with his grief over the loss of Eddie Munson in S4, causing an argument with Steve. The rest of the gang was dedicated to stockpiling supplies and helping Eleven and Hopper track down Vecna in the Upside Down. They instead found Kali/Eight, Eleven's paranormal 'sister', held captive in a military laboratory.
At the military base, things came to a head when Vecna's demagorgons attacked to take eleven more children, wiping out most of the soldiers in record time. The big reveal was that Will, as a result of his kidnapping by Vecna in S1, has supernatural powers of his own. He can tap into Vecna's hive mind and manipulate those powers for his own purposes. He used his new powers to save his friends from the demagorgons.
