THRILLS & CHILLS: “Stranger Things 5” (2025)
(Source: IMDb ) For the past decade, Matt & Ross Duffer’s supernatural horror love letter to Steven Spielberg, Steven King, and all things pop culture circa the 1980s has been a fan-favorite and acclaimed phenomenon, spanning five seasons and jumpstarting the careers of an engrossing young cast—even reviving the career(s) of a veteran or more from the big and small screens. Season Five picks up where its predecessor left off, set during the fall of 1987 (four years after the events of the inaugural eight-episode arc, when Will Byers went missing from the fictitious Hawkins, Indiana), as a ragtag group of local residents—siblings Mike and Nancy Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard and Natalia Dyer), Lucas and Erica Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin and Priah Ferguson), Will and brother Jonathan (Noah Schnepp and Charlie Heaton) and mother Joyce (Winona Ryder); Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo), Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), Robyn Buckley (Maya Hawke), former police chief Jim Hopper (David H...