‘Stranger Things’ cast returns to set for Season 5 after strikes: Photo

Everything is right-side-up in the Upside Down world.

The cast of “Stranger Things” is back at work on Season 5, expected to be the final season of the hit Netflix series.

A photo posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday shows the cast posing together under the caption, “Stranger Things 5 production has officially begun!”

A script is visible on the lap of Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler in the Netflix megahit.

It’s a welcome sight for fans of the series, which hasn’t released new episodes since the second half of Season 4 in July 2022.

“Excited to watch!” exclaimed a fan on X underneath the photo of the cast and crew.

“Yess! Let’s go team Stranger Things! Let’s gooo!” another fan tweeted.

Fans are expecting big things from Season 5, which was close to starting production last May but was delayed due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

The show’s writers, Matt and Ross Duffer, had already completed scripts for Season 5, but, at that point, there was no sense in trying to film anything without actors, so production was put off until now.

Even then, though, fans likely won’t see the new episodes until 2025, according to reports.

“Terminator” co-star Linda Hamilton has joined the cast and can be seen in the photo posted on X.

“I don’t know how to be a fangirl and an actress at the same time,” Hamilton said during her video announcement on Tudum, the Netflix online newsletter. “I’m gonna work on that.”

Executive producer Shawn Levy described the fifth season to Total Film as “major, major, cinematic storytelling that happens to be called a TV series … [it] is as big as any of the biggest movies that we see.”

The Duffer brothers told Deadline that they hope to “stick the landing” in the show’s final season.

“Characters are already going to be in action, they’re already going to have a goal and a drive, and I think that’s going to carve out at least a couple hours and make this season feel really different,” Matt Duffer said. “I’m sure the wrap-up will be a lot longer. It’s going to be ‘Return of the King’-ish with, like, eight endings.”

In November, right after “Stranger Things Day,” Netflix revealed the first few lines of the Season 5 opener on Tudum: “DARKNESS. The sound of COLD WIND. GROANING TREES. And … A CHILD’S VOICE. Singing a familiar song.”

The episode is titled “Chapter One: The Crawl.”