Titled "The Rightside Up," the finale is the eighth episode in the show's fifth and final season. Netflix released the first four episodes of Season 5 on Thanksgiving Day as "Stranger Things 5: Volume 1" and then the subsequent three episodes on Christmas as "Volume 2."

Stranger Things is known for transporting fans into unfamiliar worlds, but for one academic there is nothing strange about the hit Netflix show - it was filmed where he grew up. The US sci-fi horror series hooks fans into the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, following the world-saving adventures of Eleven and her Dungeons & Dragons-loving pals.

The show has been flooded with negative reviews as people have responded furiously to a character coming out as gay.

The real-life abandoned asylum inspired the fictional Pennhurst Mental Hospital featured in season four of 'Stranger Things', where Nancy and Robin go undercover to find Victor Creel

"Stranger Things: The First Shadow" grossed $2,510,948 at the box office across nine shows during the week ending with Dec. 28, marking the highest nine-show total ever achieved at the Marquis Theater, where the play has been open since April.

Netflix released the final trailer for 'Stranger Things 5' on Tuesday, just ahead of the anticipated series finale

He also told PEOPLE that fans can expect "a resolution to the whole Jancy Stancy controversy/triangle" in the final season. He was true to his word. In Volume 2, Nancy ( Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan ( Charlie Heaton) broke up, though Nancy did not choose to be with Steve ( Joe Keery) instead.

Netflix reports that it achueved its highest Christmas Day viewership of all time this year, with the second volume of “Stranger Things” leading the charge. While an exact viewership total for Dec. 25 was not provided — and while that total would also include Netflix’s two NFL games and other holiday viewing — “Stranger Things” Season 5 was the most-watched title of the day worldwide thanks to the release of three new episodes.