The First Trailer for ‘Stranger Issues 5’ Half 2 Desires to Flip the Upside Down… Upside Down

With simply 10 days to go till we inch ever nearer to the tip of Stranger Issues, Netflix has launched a brand new trailer for the present’s penultimate batch of episodes. Which implies it’s excessive time for the present, its viewers, and its characters alike to start out questioning: simply what the hell is the Upside Down, anyway?

We’ve recognized it’s been coming for the reason that Duffer brothers started teasing it within the run-up to the primary a part of Stranger Issues‘ fifth and remaining season, however our first correct have a look at quantity 2 positively desires you to know that definitive solutions as to only what the mysterious different airplane of existence that’s the Upside Down is are coming. Oh, and perhaps the end of life as our heroes realize it, however what’s that subsequent to some good old style thriller teasing?

Appropriately set to a remix of Diana Ross’ “Upside Down” (what else, at this level?), the brand new trailer sees the scattered youngsters start to enact their plans to cease and kill Vecna, from Eleven recruiting some assist from Eight (the returning Linnea Berthelsen), to Will recovering from the surprising occasions of half one which noticed him discover ways to faucet into Vecna’s powers. In the meantime, the primary man of the hour himself is messing round with poor Holly Wheeler and waxing lyrical in regards to the new world he desires to construct out of the ashes of the previous one.

Stopping that, in fact, may want just a few dramatic sacrifices to be made, so it’s most likely not going to assist followers’ considerations over which of their faves may not make it to the tip that we even get a pleasant huge dying flag tease for Dustin and Steve right here, as they promise that in the event that they’re going out, they’re going out collectively.

Hopefully that gained’t be the case, however we’ve solely received 10 extra days earlier than we discover out: the second quantity of Stranger Issues season 5 will hit Netflix as a bonus current below your tree on December 25, earlier than the present goes out with a bang in theaters and on the streamer on New 12 months’s Eve.

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