We’re heading back to the Upside Down. Netflix has announced a second season of Stranger Things with a teaser trailer that’s as exciting as it is expected. After the rapturous reception the show has received, it always seemed more a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’ a second run would be commissioned. Take a look below.
What we can glean from this is that the kids will be back in Hawkins, Indiana – well, maybe not Barb – and facing some of the same demons, both actual and metaphoric. The show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, have already gone on record to say that the second instalment will follow directly on from the first.
“If Netflix want to do [another run],” hinted Matt Duffer, "Season 2 would function almost more like a sequel than it would ‘Season 2’. We're leaving that door open if people like the show.” That’s borne out by the teaser’s revelation that the sequel will be set in the fall of 1984. Season 1, of course, began on 6 November, 1983.
People liked the show quite a bit, and the Duffers are promising to expand on the back story of the Demogorgon, the Department of Energy and all the other sinister forces at work. "There’s a mythology in terms of the evil that’s happening in the town that we dip our toes into this season,” added Matt Duffer, "but it isn’t actually explored: it’s only scratching the surface of what this thing is.”
Head here for the full interview with the Duffers.