Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up" is the series finale of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things. The eighth episode of the fifth season and the 42nd overall, it was written and directed by series creators The Duffer Brothers. It was released on December 31, 2025, on Netflix and in select theatres across the United States and Canada. The episode's title is a parallel of "The Upside Down", the title of the season one finale. In the episode, the group enter the Upside Down one last time in a desperate attempt to complete Operation Beanstalk, the plan proposed by Steve Harrington to save the world. While the others focus on rescuing the kidnapped children, Eleven, aided by Will, Max, and Kali, aim to confront and end Henry Creel / Vecna. "The Rightside Up" was met with mostly positive reviews for its performances, the emotional tone and weight of the epilogue, and the closure on the characters and series as a whole. Criticism was aimed at the episode's pacing and some of the visual effects.#series