Washington, Oct. 14 -- The Stranger Things fandom can finally stop speculating about the marathon-length episodes.

According to Variety, series co-creator Ross Duffer has officially revealed the runtimes for the first four episodes of the highly anticipated fifth and final season of the Netflix hit, and they're not as long as rumored.

Posting on Instagram, Duffer confirmed that the Season 5 premiere, titled "The Crawl," will run 1 hour and 8 minutes. Episode 2, whose full title remains under wraps, clocks in at 54 minutes.

Episode 3, "The Turnbow Trap," runs 1 hour and 6 minutes, and Episode 4, "Sorcerer," will be 1 hour and 23 minutes long.

The announcement debunks recent viral posts and a Puck News report suggesting that every episode...