Summary

• The 2023 Goosebumps reboot released its first five episodes simultaneously, with a more serious tone than the movie adaptations.
• The show follows a group of teens who encounter mysterious magical items, and the plot starts to unfold in episode 4.
• New episodes will be released on Disney+ and Hulu every Friday from October 20 to November 17, adapting famous novels from R.L. Stine's series.

The 2023 Goosebumps reboot released its first five episodes in one chunk, but there are plenty more episodes of the show to come. Based on the books by R.L. Stine, the Goosebumps franchise includes a number of movies and series, including the original ‘90s TV adaptation that took an anthology format and the new revival from Disney that instead follows an ongoing narrative.

Although the new Goosebumps streaming series has plenty of humor and cartoony moments, it takes both its teen drama elements and its scary scenes more seriously than the lighter, sillier live-action movie adaptations of 2015 and 2018. Goosebumps 2023 follows a group of teens who find themselves seemingly cursed after they encounter some mysterious magical items while attending a Halloween party at a seemingly abandoned house. The show’s first five episodes were released simultaneously on Disney+ and Hulu on October 13, 2023.

Goosebumps Has 5 Episodes Left (From 10 Total)

While a lot of streaming services release entire seasons of a show in one day, Disney dropped the first five episodes of the Goosebumps reboot in one block on October 13 before releasing the final five episodes weekly between October 20 and November 17. This strategy means the show will premiere new episodes in both the days leading up to and the days after Halloween.

The first few episodes of the new Goosebumps focus on individual characters whose stories recreate famous novels from the franchise, such as Say Cheese and Die, The Haunted Mask, and The Cuckoo Clock of Doom. Around episode 4, the show’s larger story starts to emerge. It turns out that the teens aren’t being targeted at random. It's because their parents share a secret connection to a local teen who died years earlier. Goosebumps season 1, episode 5, “Reader Beware,” ends on a huge cliffhanger, meaning viewers will likely be compelled to return on October 20 and discover where the story of the series is heading.

This is not the first R.L. Stine adaptation to have a unique and clever release strategy. Netflix’s adaptations of Stine's Fear Street novels, which consisted of three interconnected movies, were all released on the streaming service in July 2021 with a one-week break between each installment.

When New Episodes Of Goosebumps & The Finale Drop On Disney+ - Full Release Schedule

New episodes of the 2023 Goosebumps reboot drop on Disney+ and Hulu every Friday from October 20 through November 17. The rest of the season’s episodes gain their titles from famous entries in R.L. Stine's series of novels, which implies that the show will continue to adapt the books as its story continues. The Goosebumps release schedule is as follows:

• Episode 6, “Night of the Living Dummy” - October 20
• Episode 7, “Give Yourself Goosebumps” - October 27
• Episode 8, “You Can’t Scare Me” - November 3
• Episode 9, “Night of the Living Dummy Part 2” - November 10
• Episode 10, “Welcome to Horrorland” - November 17