Netflix has made its announcement about the runtimes for Stranger Things 5 Vol. 1, and the fans are taking it in different ways. The breakdown is as follows:
Episode 1 – The Crawl: 1 hour 8 minutes
Episode 2 – The Vanishing of…: 54 minutes
Episode 3 – The Turnbow Trap: 1 hour 6 minutes
Episode 4 – Sorcerer: 1 hour 23 minutes
This setting paints a picture that differs from the expectation that every single episode should surpass the 90-minute mark in its length.
The Duffer Brothers have emphasized that Season 5 kicks off at full speed. Unlike Season 4, which had to juggle multiple storylines across different locations, the new season centers all the characters back in Hawkins. This shift probably allows for much tighter storytelling and faster pacing. Shorter runtimes don’t necessarily mean less content-every minute could be filled with action, emotion, or heavy plot payoff.
One might feel The Vanishing of… was longer-lived but for the constant escalations which distressed the narrative from the first scene.
The need for the longer runtimes in Season 4 was to cover various subplots, but with everyone propagating the same cause, the Duffer’s set out to fuse together into one story. It could build up the feeling of Stranger Things 5 into the vein of the earlier seasons-short, emotional, and blockbuster-worthy but without the clutter of unneeded filler.
It could even be the case that Volume 2 has longer episodes, as a reaction to what Vol. 1 brings, especially in the events of character death or separation. Probably a feature-length finale-a reach of close to 1 hour and 45 minutes-tying up every storyline, aiming to end their series, and saying goodbye to Hawkins once and all.
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