How to watch Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 in New Zealand

Goodbye Hawkins, we’re crying over you.

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things, Netflix’s smash hit ’80s horror series, has been a long time coming. Perhaps a little too long, thanks to various delays…But it’s here! At least the first bit.

How to watch Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 in New Zealand

Stranger Things season 5 part 1 is streaming in New Zealand exclusively on Netflix, with volume 2 dropping on December 25, then the grand finale on December 31.

What is Stranger Things season 5 volume 1 about?

You must be up to date, surely, but just in case: after four seasons of teen heroes Dustin, Mike, Lucas, Will and various hangers-on battling both the supernatural menace of the otherworldly Upside Down and the government forces that want to control it, the final battle is rapidly approaching. It’s an all-out assault on evil monster/sorcerer/psychic/etc Vecna, who we learned was the evil mind plotting all the horror that’s been inflicted on the tiny town of Hawkins, Indiana these past few years.

The cast of Stranger Things season 5 volume 1

Winona Ryder is heroic mum Joyce Byers; David Harbour is gruff, fatherly cop Jim Hopper; Millie Bobby Brown is psychic teen Eleven, AKA Jane Hopper; Finn Wolfhard is Mike Wheeler; Gaten Matarazzo is Dustin Henderson; Caleb McLaughlin is Lucas Sinclair; Noah Schnapp is Will Byers; Sadie Sink is Max Mayfield; Natalia Dyer is Nancy Wheeler; Charlie Heaton is Jonathan Byers; Joe Keery is Steve Harrington; and Maya Hawke is Robin Buckley.

Stranger Things season 5 part 1 trailer

Why we’re excited about Stranger Things season 5 part 1

Well, we’ve been in for almost 10 years at this point, so it’d be weird to bail on the last lap. Bring. It. On.