Following the
success of the first season, Netflix is keeping all info regarding the second
season of Stranger Things locked in a vault hidden in some undisclosed
location. Not even the puzzling Super Bowl teaser, which tend to be costly, offered
much.
Today
however, the streaming giant gave the thumbs up to some information sharing,
and in an interview to EW series co-creator Matt Duffer revealed that Stranger
Things season 2 starts nearly a year after the first
season ended, on Halloween in Hawkins, Indiana, with Will (Noah Schnapp) having
to deal with the effects of his stay in the alternate dimension, the Upside
Down, as evidenced by the slug he coughed up in season 1’s final.
"He seems to be seeing images from the Upside
Down—the question is whether they’re real or not," Duffer says. "So it seems like he’s having some sort of
post-traumatic stress disorder."
Meanwhile, Will's mother Joyce (Winona Ryder), has decided to give Will and his brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) something of a stable environment at home by dating an old high school classmate, Bob (Sean Astin).
"She’s trying to mask a lot," Ryder says. "I think she’s made this choice with Bob because she wants a good father figure in her sons’ lives."
Meanwhile, Hopper (David Harbour) seems to be trying
to keep all of the first season's events a secret in order to protect Joyce and
the kids.
"It kind of falls on Hopper to be the voice of
authority to say, ‘This did happen and this didn’t happen,’" says Harbour.
"He’s struggling with the compromise that takes him to, having to lie and
cover things up."
Siblings Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard)
have also changed after mourning the (apparent) deaths of Barb (Shannon Purser)
and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).
"She and Mike are both the most screwed-up
because they’re the ones who both lost someone," says co-creator Ross
Duffer. "They’re both grappling with that, and we see the effects."
Shaking up the second season of Stranger Things is the
arrival of siblings Billy (Dacre Montgomery), a loner who doesn't make friends,
and Max (Sadie Sink), who both becomes friends with the boys and attracts
romantic interest from Lucas and Dustin (Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo).
"Stephen King always has really great human
villains. The evil in the real world is often as bad or worse than the
supernatural evil, so we wanted to introduce a character like that,"
teases Matt Duffer of the recent additions.
Finally, and since the rift to the Upside Down is still
open, expect plenty of otherworldly monsters to appear, including a pet-like
creature for Dustin.
"It’s a little creature I get to bond with,"
Matarazzo says. "It’s obviously not from this planet or this dimension."
Stranger Things returns October 31st on Netflix.
Source
- EW
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