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The fifth and final season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 5, was released on the streaming service Netflix. The season, which will consist of eight episodes, is set to be released in three parts. The first volume premiered on November 26, 2025, with the second slated for December 25, and the finale on December 31.
Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively, and the fourth season was released in two parts in May and July 2022.
Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and also for Android, where it is the default browser.
List of Stranger Things episodes
Stranger Things is an American science fiction, horror, mystery, and drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers for streaming on Netflix. The brothers, as well as Karl Gajdusek in the first season only, are the program's showrunners. They also executive produce the series with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Germany. It is also observed in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the harvest and of the preceding year.
Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. His music blends various genres including pop, hip-hop, trap, R&B, and country. Malone began his musical career in 2011, and earned mainstream recognition with his 2015 cloud rap debut single, "White Iverson".
Millie Bonnie Bongiovi (nΓ©e Brown; born 19 February 2004), known professionally as Millie Bobby Brown, is a British actress and film producer. She gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016βpresent), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Miss International 2025 was the 63rd Miss International pageant, held on 27 November 2025 in Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Huα»³nh Thα» Thanh Thα»§y of Vietnam crowned Catalina Duque of Colombia as her successor at the conclusion of the event, marking the countryβs fourth title in this pageant.
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 β July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defenseβas well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophiesβas a new school of martial arts thought.
The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
Conan Lee Gray (born December 5, 1998) is an American singer, songwriter and former YouTuber. He was born in Lemon Grove, California, and raised in Georgetown, Texas, where he began uploading vlogs, covers, and original songs to YouTube as a teenager. In 2018, Gray signed a record deal with Republic Records, which released his debut EP, Sunset Season (2018).
Cynthia Chinasaokwu Onyedinmanasu Amarachukwu Owezuke Echimino Erivo ( Ι-REE-voh; born 8 January 1987) is a British actress, singer, and songwriter. Known for her work on both stage and screen, she is the recipient of several accolades and one of few individuals nominated for an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award (EGOT), winning all but the Oscar.
Pluribus (styled PLUR1BUS) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction television series created by Vince Gilligan for Apple TV. The series stars Rhea Seehorn. The show follows author Carol Sturka, played by Seehorn, as the rest of humanity is suddenly joined into a hive mind that seeks to amicably assimilate Carol and other immune individuals into the mind.
. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American action spy film series created by Rich Wilkes. It consists of three full-length feature films: XXX (2002), XXX: State of the Union (2005) and XXX: Return of Xander Cage (2017), and a short film: The Final Chapter: The Death of Xander Cage. The series has grossed $694 million worldwide.
The fourth season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 4, was released worldwide on the streaming service Netflix in two volumes. The first set of seven episodes was released on May 27, 2022, while the second set of two episodes was released on July 1, 2022.
K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 9 January 1948) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu, currently associated with the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam led by Vijay. He has a long political career primarily with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and has served as a MLA from the Gobichettipalayam constituency for multiple terms.
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November (which became the uniform date country-wide in 1941). The earliest Thanksgiving can occur is November 22; the latest is November 28. Outside the United States, it is called American Thanksgiving to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
Deborah Ann Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She released her debut album Out of the Blue (1987) at age 16, writing and largely producing the material. The album spawned several international hits, later being certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Megan Martha White (born December 10, 1974) is a retired American musician who achieved international fame as the drummer of the rock duo the White Stripes. White typically performed backing vocals for the band but occasionally sang lead, including in the song "In the Cold, Cold Night". She did not write lyrics, but she co-wrote the band's music.
Noah Cameron Schnapp (born October 3, 2004) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Will Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things. In addition to his work in television, Schnapp had a supporting role in Steven Spielberg's historical drama Bridge of Spies (2015) and voiced Charlie Brown in the animated film The Peanuts Movie (2015).
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual parade in New York City presented by the American department store chain Macy's. While not the first such event held in the United States, the Macy's Parade has become an iconic pop culture tradition watched by tens of millions each year.
Natalia Danielle Dyer (born January 13, 1995) is an American actress. She is known for starring as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016βpresent). She has also appeared in the Peacock comedy thriller series Based on a True Story (2023) and in the films Yes, God, Yes (2019), Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) and Things Heard & Seen (2021).
6-7 (pronounced "six seven"; also written as 67, 6 7, and 6, 7) is an Internet meme and slang term that emerged in 2025 on TikTok and Instagram Reels. The phrase originated from the song "Doot Doot (6 7)" by Skrilla, which became popular in video edits featuring professional basketball players, especially LaMelo Ball, who is listed at 6 ft 7 in (2. 01 meters) tall.
Charles Ross Heaton (born 6 February 1994) is an English actor. He is known for starring as Jonathan Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016βpresent) and for his roles in feature films like As You Are (2016), Marrowbone (2017), The New Mutants (2020), No Future (2021), and The Souvenir Part II (2021).
Jewel Kilcher (born Juel Kilcher on May 23, 1974), best known mononymously as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter. She has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and has sold over 30 million albums worldwide as of 2024. Jewel was raised near Homer, Alaska, where she grew up singing and yodeling as a musical duo with her father, Atz Kilcher, a local musician.
Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. Known for portraying tough, resilient characters, she made her film debut in 1979 before achieving fame with her starring role as Sarah Connor in The Terminator (1984) and two of its sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019).
The Family Man (Indian TV series)
The Family Man is an Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller streaming television series created by Raj & DK for Amazon Prime Video and features Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a fictitious branch of the National Investigation Agency.
Wicked (titled on-screen as Wicked: Part I) is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a reimagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation.
Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948; Hindi pronunciation: [Ι¦eΛmaΛ maΛlΙͺnΜͺiΛ dΜͺΚ±ΙΙΎmeΛnΜͺdΜͺΙΎΙ dΜͺeΛoΛl]) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014.
KPop Demon Hunters is a 2025 American animated musical urban fantasy film directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans from a screenplay they co-wrote with Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Netflix, the film stars the voices of Arden Cho, Ahn Hyo-seop, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Yunjin Kim, Daniel Dae Kim, Ken Jeong, and Lee Byung-hun.
Jonathan Drew Groff (born March 26, 1985) is an American actor and singer. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he has received several awards including a Tony Award and a Grammy Award as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. He began his career on Broadway making his debut in the musical In My Life (2005).
Shona Bernadette McGarty (born 14 October 1991) is an English actress and singer, best known for her portrayal of Whitney Dean in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2008 to 2024. In 2025, she released a single "Unapologetically Me" and was a contestant on the twenty-fifth series of I'm a Celebrity. . . Get Me Out of Here!
Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms, a series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings were inspired by the Four Freedoms, a set of four goals articulated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States, in his 1941 State of the Union address.
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 β September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president.
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google.
Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 19
Bigg Boss 19, also known as Bigg Boss: Iss Baar Chalegi Gharwaloon Ki Sarkar, is the nineteenth season of the Indian Hindi language reality television show Bigg Boss. It premiered on 24 August 2025 on JioHotstar and Colors TV. Salman Khan hosts the show for the sixteenth time.
Jordan Alexander Love (born November 2, 1998) is an American professional football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Love, who was born and raised in Bakersfield, California, attended Liberty High School, where he began playing for the school's football team.
Sadie Elizabeth Sink (born April 16, 2002) is an American actress. She began her acting career in theater, playing the title role in the musical Annie (2012β14) and young Elizabeth II in the historical play The Audience (2015) on Broadway. In 2016, she made her film debut in the biographical sports drama Chuck.
Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to its north and Guinea to its southeast. Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Kaabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire.
Pamela Hogg (4 January 1959 β 26 November 2025) was a Scottish fashion designer who launched her first fashion collection in 1981. Also a musician who played in several bands, she created clothes for the likes of Ian Astbury of The Cult, Paula Yates, Marie Helvin, Siouxsie Sioux and Debbie Harry of Blondie.
Joseph David Keery (born April 24, 1992), also known professionally in music as Djo, is an American actor and musician. He became known for playing Steve Harrington in the science fiction series Stranger Things (2016βpresent), and has since starred in the comedy film Free Guy (2021) and in the fifth season of the crime comedy-drama series Fargo (2023β2024).
Ethan Samuel Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor and singer. He played the character of SpongeBob SquarePants in the 2016 musical of the same name, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He played Boq Woodsman in the musical films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025).
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies. Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student.
Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7. 5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world.
Dylan Edward Cease (born December 28, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres. The Chicago Cubs selected Cease in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB draft and traded him to the White Sox in 2017.
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II ( mΙ-HOHMZ; born September 17, 1995) is an American professional football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). Since becoming the Chiefs' starting quarterback in 2018, he has led the team to seven consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances and five Super Bowl appearances, winning three.
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum ( GOHLD-bloom; born October 22, 1952) is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (1996), as well as their sequels. Goldblum made his acting film debut in Death Wish (1974) with early small roles in California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), and Annie Hall (1977).
David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016βpresent), for which he received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
Thomas Read Wilson (born 12 November 1986) is an English television personality, actor and singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music, he appeared in an array of musical theatre productions and was a contestant on the fifth series of The Voice UK. Since 2016, he has served as the receptionist and client co-ordinator on the E4 reality series Celebs Go Dating.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season and is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at heavily discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight or even on Thanksgiving.
It: Welcome to Derry is an American supernatural horror television series based on Stephen King's 1986 novel It. Serving as a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), the series was developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, all of whom were involved in the It films.
Robert Irwin (conservationist)
Robert Clarence Irwin (born 1 December 2003) is an Australian conservationist, television personality, wildlife photographer, and actor. The only son of conservationists Steve and Terri Irwin, he is a manager at Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland, and is frequently involved in activities that his father originally participated in.
Just in Time is a jukebox musical based on the life of American singer Bobby Darin, with a book by Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver. The musical premiered on April 23, 2025, at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre. The show starts with lead performer Jonathan Groff portraying himself in 2025, and then goes back to the 1950s and 1960s to tell Darin's story.
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
Kashyap Pramod Patel (born February 25, 1980) is an American lawyer serving since 2025 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel also served as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from February to April 2025. Patel studied criminal justice and history at the University of Richmond and graduated from the Pace University School of Law.
Olivia Jean Markel (born February 23, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She signed with Third Man Records in 2009, forming the all-female gothic rock band the Black Belles as lead vocalist and guitarist. Following their disbandment in 2012, Jean embarked on a solo career releasing three studio albums.
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 β June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Possessing a strong contralto voice, Garland was celebrated for her emotional depth and versatility across film, stage, and concert performance. She achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in the musical film The Wizard of Oz (1939).
2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'Γ©tat
On 26 November 2025, the president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco EmbalΓ³, was arrested as part of a coup d'Γ©tat carried out by Head of the Military Office of the Presidency Brigadier General Dinis Incanha. Military officers declared "total control" over the country and established the High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koine Greek: ΞλΡοΟΞ¬ΟΟΞ± ΞΡά ΦιλοΟΞ¬ΟΟΟ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC β 10 or 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
Witney Capri Carson McAllister (nΓ©e Carson; born October 17, 1993) is an American professional dancer and choreographer. She first gained recognition as a contestant on the ninth season of the reality competition series So You Think You Can Dance. Carson then joined Dancing with the Stars as a troupe member, and was promoted to pro in 2014.