Summary
- Jamie Campbell Bower teases Stranger Things season five as a “bigger, completely insane” season.
- Vecna and Henry Creel’s backstory is crucial for the final epic chapter, and Bower reveals that he drew a lot from the
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play,
The First Shadow
. - Last season ended on a cliffhanger with Vecna’s return signifying a brewing threat.
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comes to a climactic end in 2025.
It appears something is showing signs of life from the Upside Down. Jamie Campbell Bower, also known as the performer who gives life to Vecna/Henry Creel/001/ Peter Ballard in Stranger Things season four, has shared a few details about the upcoming fifth and final season. While the rest of the cast and crew have remained relatively silent about season 5, Bower decided to tease us with minor yet exciting news: “It’s bigger. It’s just completely insane. It’s completely insane.”
Vecna is season four’s antagonist, in the same vein as Billy Hargrove and the Demogorgon, but there’s a backstory this time. A very important backstory. The monster was born Henry Creel, and after a mysterious incident that left half of his family dead, he was placed in the care of Dr. Brenner. Brenner is the leader of the project where our dear Eleven comes from. In season four, we witnessed flashbacks where Eleven and Creel met early on, and ultimately, he became Vecna, the ruler of the upside down. Considering he had to play more than one character at once, Bower’s dramatic performance was very effective, and there was no question that Vecna would return for season five.
Bower was on the podcast I’ve Never Said This Before with Tommy DiDario, where he teased some notes about where Stranger Things could go in the fifth season:
If you thought last season was nuts, this season is just out of control, wild, like, it’s bonkers. It really, really is.
The actor also shared some resources he had to use in order to give more depth to his character, especially checking out The First Shadow, the Stranger Things play. In the play, the character of Henry Creel has just arrived in Hawkins in 1959, and we all know what happens soon after. Bower says the play gave him the opportunity to answer some questions about Creel:
“[The play] goes back to Henry before we met him in season four. And to have a lot of the questions or a lot of the thoughts that I had about that character kind of answered by watching the play, and also discover more, was really interesting for me.”
Stranger Things: What We Know About the Final Season
Bower was also very clear about the current status of Stranger Things Season 5. He says they’ve shot a lot since January, when the production began again, but there’s just too much left to do. The fifth and final entry of the show will not be released in 2024, and the delay was most likely caused by the strikes of 2023, which heavily affected the world of television. When Netflix, the Duffer brothers, and the cast have talked about season 5, their comments share the fact that the last one will be big.
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Plot-wise, season 4 ended with a relative cliffhanger. While it showed an emotional encounter between the characters, it also showed Will Byers being tormented by something. There’s also a time jump element that will give writers the challenge of trying to make some sense of the physical appearance of the younger cast (they’re still in high school, but many years have passed in real life). The fact that Vecna will be back is a sign that things in the Upside Down are brewing: in terms of villains, the last Stranger Things will be more than epic.
What the Duffers have been clear about, is that Stranger Things will come to an end with the fifth season. At least, the part of the story we know. The stage play is a spin-off that has had great results so far (it will come to Broadway at some point). A spin-off series and an animated show are also in the Stranger Things landscape that Netflix will surely capitalize on.
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Season 5 is set to air in 2025. It is streaming on Netflix.
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