After mass confusion, the real runtimes of the final Stranger Things episodes are confirmed

For months, posts have circled around social media claiming to reveal the runtimes for all the episodes in season five of Stranger Things. Thankfully, the show’s creators have cleared this up for us, and confirmed exactly how long the remaining episodes are. So, what are the actual runtimes of the Stranger Things season five episodes? We have some answers for you.

Most season five episodes are about an hour long

Stranger Things fans speculated that most episodes of season five would be as long as feature films. This isn’t actually the case.

The first four episodes of season five were mostly over an hour, but not quite pushing two hours. Chapter One: The Crawl is an hour and 11 minutes long. Chapter Two: The Vanishing of Holly Wheeler is the shortest, at 57 minutes. Chapter Three: The Turnbrow Trap is an hour and nine minutes. Then Chapter Four: Sorcerer is the longest at one hour and 26 minutes. Although that’s lengthy for a Netflix show, it’s still shorter than the last three episodes of Stranger Things season four.

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Although there are plenty of rumours, Netflix hasn’t actually confirmed the exact runtimes of the next three episodes. We know volume two will drop at 8pm EST on 25th December (which is 1am on 26th December in the UK). These three episodes are called Shock Jock, Escape from Camazotz and The Bridge. You might have seen TikToks with runtimes in, but this information is unofficial (and often contradictory, and likely false).

The Duffer brothers have finally confirmed the real runtimes for volume two

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Volume two drops at 8pm EST on 25th December (which is 1am on 26th December in the UK). You might have seen social media posts claiming to show the “leaked” runtimes for these episodes. But these weren’t real.

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Ross Duffer has finally clarified what the real runtimes are of the remaining Stranger Things episodes. On 22nd December, he posted a montage of screenshots of the episode lengths. So, we now have it in writing that Chapter Five: Shock Jock is one hour and eight minutes. Chapter Six: Escape from Camazotz is one hour and fifteen minutes. Chapter Seven: The Bridge goes one for one hour and six minutes.

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The runtime of the Stranger Things finale has changed

The exact runtime of the grand finale of Stranger Things was shared in advance. Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up is arriving at 8pm EST on 31st December (or 1am on 1st January in the UK). Because several cinemas are screening this, Netflix announced back in November that this episode would be two hours and five minutes long.

However, Ross Duffer’s new Insta post showed this episode as being two hours and eight minutes long.

Some cinema schedules might show a longer time slot than this, but that’s so they can cram in trailers and ads beforehand.

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