Netflix just released the first trailer for the Stranger Things Season 5 BTS documentary, releasing on January 12th.
Fans will be able to revisit the Upside Down one last time. Netflix dropped the first official trailer for One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 Documentary. The doc is a never-before-seen behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Stranger Things Season 5. The special look will be streaming exclusively on Netflix on January 12th.
The Stranger Things doc offers an inside look at the years of effort and craft that went into the final installment of the Duffer Brothers’ generation-defining series. The trailer unveils the stress and difficulties the Duffer Brothers had with writing the final season. Viewers can hear the anxiety from Matt and Ross Duffer as they try to come up with the perfect ending for the worldwide phenomena. Even hearing producer/director Shawn Levy’s voice adds to the gravity of the situation on writing the fifth and final season.
Levy says, “It’s a beloved show, and Matt and Ross have to bring it to an end. The stakes are high.” Then, Matt says in a different scene, “At the end of the day, the audience cares most about the characters.” He goes on talking about how they “debated Eleven’s fate”, along with many montages of the cast on press tours, shots from the finished version of the final season, and BTS footage of some of the stunts from the season. It ends with Matt and Ross giving one last thanks to the cast and crew with a wrap speech.
Stranger Things began streaming on Netflix back in July 2016, and arguably the first Netflix original series that hit across all ages around the world. Yes, there was House of Cards, Marco Polo, Daredevil, and Orange is the New Black. But none of those catered towards the younger viewers. I would argue it is the series that first made me and countless others excited to purchase a Netflix subscription. It was this show and Daredevil, which came out the previous year. Even though Netflix was around since 2007, it felt like Stranger Things was the show that became the global face of the streamer—and rightfully so. The general populous did not know what a Demogorgon, Mind Flayer, or Vecna was before this show, but they do now.
Stranger Things is critically-acclaimed for its various themes: coming-of-age, coming out as a queer, found families versus blood-related family relations, nostalgia of the 80s and 90s, and so much more. The way the Duffer Brothers used Dungeons & Dragons as a storytelling device is one of the most creative connections of this series, and is most likely why many new players have played their own campaigns—alongside Critical Role influences. The Netflix series has garnered numerous awards and nominations across the entertainment industry, including ten Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations through the second season.
While the internet is torn about that finale, this documentary is a great way to celebrate all the series has achieved as a whole—from Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers to Chapter 8 of Season 5’s The Rightside Up. Time to say goodbye to Hawkins, Indiana…for now.
The documentary, One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 Documentary is set to come out on Netflix for January 12th. In terms of timing, viewers can expect it to drop around the same time most new content drops: 12:00 am PT or 3:00 am ET. This is unless Netflix decides to drop it at a specially-requested time, like when the finale dropped. Who knows, maybe it will come out at 11:11 pm in one of the time zones.
