Stranger Things is back for its fifth and final season on Netflix NetflixIf you’re one of those who stayed up until the wee small hours so you could be among the first people to stream the new instalments of Stranger Things, you may have hit a bit of a frustrating stumbling block. At around three o’clock on Thursday morning, Netflix released the first four episodes of Stranger Things’ fifth and final season, with two more drops set to take place on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. AdvertisementHowever, as many settled in to catch up with the Hawkins gang, they found that their Netflix was unable to load, as a surge of users worldwide crashed the platform’s servers. pic.twitter.com/lgKm0aKpCl — ang (@IIMMUNITY) November 27, 2025netflix crashing literally one minute before 8pm you got to be kidding me... pic.twitter.com/CXKLtSOpqP — Film Class Guy #1 (@beforekermit) November 27, 2025AdvertisementEveryone going to Twitter to see if Netflix crashed #StrangerThings5 pic.twitter.com/GApRd4QWPs — iregretlikingsports (@Jimmy2424555) November 27, 2025It's not just you... 'Stranger Things' Season 5 has crashed Netflix https://t.co/v7CSlWE9fp — ScreenTime (@screentime) November 27, 2025Creator Ross Duffer also revealed on his Instagram that Netflix had increased its bandwidth “by 30 percent to avoid a crash”, only for the show’s popularity to override it anyway. AdvertisementThe new episodes feature the return of core cast members like Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown, with the story picking up 18 months after the dramatic events of season four.

Source: Huffington Post November 27, 2025 16:24 UTC