The long-awaited day has finally come: Stranger Things Season 5 has arrived for everybody with a Netflix subscription , with the four episodes of Volume 1 all available now. More than three years after Season 4 ended with Hawkins a mess, the heroes dealing with their biggest loss to date, and Max comatose with way too many broken bones, Season 5 picks back up after an 18-month time jump.

No need to worry about spoilers here if you haven't seen all four episodes yet. The actors who played the original cast of kids from Season 1 opened up about what's to come without giving the full game away, with more than a little nostalgia. They haven't regularly shared scenes with all of them together in recent seasons, but they were still the first unit of the series.

(Quotes from pre-Season 5

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