Stranger Things Season 5's each episode is an entire movie in itself. No, that's not because we know anything about its plot, but the duration. Its creators, the Duffer Brothers have finally revealed the actual runtime of its first four episodes, and it nothing close to what rumours claimed few months ago. Stranger Things is nearing its finale, and evey detail being revealed by its makers is only adding fuel to the fire of excitement.On October 13, Ross Duffer, one half of the sibling duo, revealed the length of the first four episodes for the final season through an Instagram post that said "actual runtimes." He took to his personal account and posted a clip where he scrolling through the list of episodes with its duration mentionednext to each.
Stranger Things season 5 runtime of first four episodes
Episode 1 (The Crawl): 1 hour 8 minutesEpisode 2 (The Vanishing Of...): 54 minutesEpisode 3 (The Turnbow Trap): 1 hour 6 minutesEpisode 4 (Sorcerer): 1 hour 23 minutesRoss Duffer's post rejects an earlier report that every episode of Season 5 would run from "90 minutes to two hours" long. Ross had back then refuted the claim on his Instagram account by saying it wasn't even close.
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The final season of Stranger Things is split into three parts. After the first part premieres on the Thanksgiving holiday, the next three episodes of Part 2 will release on Christmas, and the finale will be released on New Year’s Eve, December 31.ALSO READ: Stranger Things Season 5: Eleven, Max And Erica Get Full Focus, See New Character Posters Its official synopsis reads: "The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown. Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time."