Netflix doesn’t release its numbers like networks, but Stranger Things is rumored to be the streaming service’s most-watched series yet. Last year’s cult phenomenon got a Super Bowl spot this time around, and the second season will premiere just in time for Halloween on October 27, 2017.
The second season is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
Stranger Things Season 2 will star Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer, Cara Buono, Charlie Heaton, and Matthew Modine. New cast additions include Sadie Sink (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Dacre Montgomery (Power Rangers), Brett Gelman (Blunt Talk, The Other Guys), newcomer Linnea Berthelsen, and ’80s icons Sean Astin (The Goonies) and Paul Reiser (Aliens).
Watch it, Harbour… I’ll be sizing you up and trying to picture you as Hellboy the entire time. Also, I hope this delivers. The first one was such a surprise, it hit people out of the blue. Trying to recapture the magic, but this time saddled with so many expectations, and the eyes of the entire world… I do not envy the showrunners (though I quickly will if they knock it out of the part and it lasts 4 more years, with these same numbers).
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