Mike's sister Holly Wheeler has mostly existed in the background of Stranger Things, but in season 5, she's given a major role to play.

Find out the Netflix release date and time of Stranger Things Season 5 Volume 1, as well as episode details, why it’s delayed, and more.

Ultimately, that's what resonates most about Stranger Things Season 5's first four episodes. The flashy battles and lore bombshells can get the blood pumping, but it's the characters who have kept viewers coming back for many, many years. Knowing we'll be saying goodbye to them only makes these episodes sweeter, exhaustion be damned.

Limited screenings of Stranger Things Season 5's final episode will play in over 350 theaters throughout the US and Canada. The screenings will take place at the exact same time as the Netflix global premiere (December 31 at 8:00 pm ET) and will run through January 1. In other words, you have two days to watch the finale in theaters if you want to!

Ahead of Stranger Things Season 5, the Duffer brothers have revealed four episodes of the Netflix series that are essential to rewatch.

If you needed proof of how fired up people are for the final season, you didn’t need leaks or whispers. The Netflix charts already told the story. Hawkins fever is at its peak, and at 5 pm PT, Stranger Things Season 5 finally arrives, sending the kids the world met back in 2016 on their bikes for one last ride.

The first four episodes of Stranger Things 5 release Wednesday, November 26 just as everyone gets off of work – and out of school – for the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s the perfect holiday watch party event, and Netflix is keeping that philosophy alive with the release of Volume 2 on Christmas Day and the series finale on New Year’s Eve.

If Stranger Things was once the nostalgic bicycle-riding show you could justify letting the kids watch, in Season 5, innocence is cancelled.