Netflix renews Stranger Things for season 2 – here’s what to expect
Aficionados of this summer’s small-screen sensation will be glad to hear we’re going back to Hawkins, Indiana, in the ’80s – and some of the loose ends from the first season might just get tied up
Want more Stranger Things? Done. The popular Netflix series, which premiered in July and turned into a small-screen blockbuster, will return in 2017 with nine new episodes, Netflix has announced.
Set in fictional Hawkins, Indiana, in 1983, the sci-fi thriller mini-series starts with the disappearance of a boy, Will, after an intense round of Dungeons & Dragons and some supernatural forces at play. Will’s mother (Winona Ryder), the police and Will’s friends – aided by a girl with mysterious powers – all search for the missing middle-schooler.
The series goes pretty heavy on the 1980s nostalgia, with nods to classic horror and sci-fi movies of the era, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. It evokes some Stephen King vibes, too.
So what will become of Stranger Things? Don’t expect it to go the way of True Detective, American Horror Story and other anthology series, which start brand-new narratives each season. Co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer, twin brothers, told Entertainment Weekly the show sticks with the same storyline, picking up in the fall of 1984.
