In “Stranger Things” Season 2, things are getting flipped, turned upside down.
Everyone, including the cast, has been freaking out since the recent Super Bowl teaser, which seemingly showed Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) alive and a giant monster terrorizing the town of Hawkins, Indiana, but more specific details have been a mystery until now.
In new interviews from Entertainment Weekly, we’re finally learning what’s going down in the upcoming season.
Events in the show will begin around one year after Season 1 ended. The boys will be going as Ghostbusters on Halloween. But remember, after coughing up a slug-like creature (possibly a pollywog) in the Season 1 finale, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) isn’t doing too well. In fact, co-creator Matt Duffer told EW that Byers seems to be going through post-traumatic stress disorder.
“He seems to be seeing images from the Upside Down — the question is whether they’re real or not,” said Duffer.
Elsewhere, Joyce (Winona Ryder) is now going out with an old high-school classmate named Bob (Sean Astin), and Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) is struggling to cover things up after the craziness in Season 1.
“It kind of falls on Hopper to be the voice of authority to say, ‘This did happen and this didn’t happen,’” Harbour told EW. “He’s struggling with the compromise that takes him to, having to lie and cover things up.”
Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) are having a tough time at the beginning of the season, too, dealing with the deaths of Barb (Shannon Purser) and, supposedly, Eleven. Co-creator Ross Duffer said the pair are “the most screwed up,” and we’ll see the effects of their trauma.
