Los Angeles (dpa) – Netflix has released a trailer for the second batch of episodes for the long-awaited final season of "Stranger Things", arriving on December 25 or December 26, depending on your location. "This whole time everything we have ever assumed about the upside down has been dead wrong," Dustin can be heard saying in thetrailer , over flashes of scenes hinting at a blockbuster showdown. Among the questions to be answered: Can Max and Holly escape their mind prison? What is the extent of Will's newly discovered powers? And perhaps most importantly: Can the return of Eleven's 'sister' Kali in the finale make sense of season 2's controversial plot diversion? The wait has been long for the finale of a series that premiered in the summer of 2016 and became a global phenomenon almost overnight, with its mix of fantasy, mystery, horror and coming-of-age, plus a heavy dose of 1980s flair and pop culture nods. The launch at 5 pm US Pacific Time means many in the Eastern Hemisphere will need to wait another day (or at least until after midnight) before they can watch. Fans will have to wait until New Year's Eve for the final episode, which the Duffer Brothers previously told dpa they had long been preparing for. "We've always had the ending in mind, the last scene in particular," Matt Duffer said in an interview in November. "We've had that for seven years or something. So that provided us with a North Star that we were confident in. So we were always building towards that moment." What's happened so far (careful, spoilers) In season one, set in 1983, Will Byers disappears. His friends Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair, searching for him, meet the mysterious girl Eleven, who has extraordinary powers. They, and Will’s mother Joyce, discover a parallel shadow world, the Upside Down, where the fearsome Demogorgon lurks. After Will is rescued, Hawkins faces a greater threat in 1984. A creature called the Mind Flayer invades victims’ thoughts and takes control of their will. In season three, set in 1985, Soviet agents infiltrate Hawkins to open a portal to the shadow world, bringing more unwelcome visitors. Police chief Jim Hopper sacrifices himself to close the portal from the other side and ends up in a Russian penal camp where Demogorgons are being used for experiments. Season four opens with unexplained deaths in Hawkins. An intelligent entity called Vecna haunts citizens in their dreams. Eleven learns she has a link to Vecna rooted in her traumatic past. The shadow world breaches the real one and parts of the town must be evacuated. The first episodes of season five have so far set up Vecna's mysterious return, introducing a new enemy in the US military played by 1980s legend Linda Hamilton, while Eleven looks set to be backed up by her 'sister' Kali and Will with his newfound powers. The following information is not intended for publication dpa coh
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