There's a new conspiracy that Stranger Things has hours of cut footage that will solve all its current problems, but it just isn't real.

With these runtimes, the remaining four episodes (5 through 8) total 5 hours and 37 minutes. The total runtime for all of season 5 is 10 hours and 8 minutes. That makes season 5 shorter than season 4 (13 hours and 2 minutes) but longer than season 3 (7 hours and 31 minutes). Those numbers are sourced from the minutes on the Netflix app.

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The "Stranger Things" Season 5 finale is almost here. Here’s exactly when it premieres on Netflix and in theaters, plus how long the final episode will be.

Stranger Things co-creator Ross Duffer just confirmed the runtimes for the final episodes of the Netflix hit series. With just four episodes left in the highly anticipated new season, Duffer confirmed on social media that the all of the episodes have a runtime north of an hour, with the series finale clocking in at a whopping two hours.

In the two-hour-long series finale of Netflix's "Stranger Things," here's how everything comes to an end for our friends in Hawkins.

Stranger Things 5’s last episode drops at 1am on January 1st in the UK, and it’s longer than many movies. It’s called The Rightside Up and is two hours eight minutes long. Those in the US and Canada get the chance to see the finale in cinemas, including 200 AMC venues. But in the UK? Not a sniff, you’ll just have to make do with watching it on TV.

The end of 'Stranger Things' is near, and a select number of movie theaters across the country are offering a chance to see it on the big screen.

Ever since “Stranger Things” first debuted on Netflix in 2016, it was evident that Noah Schnapp‘s Will Byers was different from his friends. His own father derisively called him queer, as his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) recounts early in Season 1.