Stranger Things Renewed for Season 3
Prepare for a boatload of Goonies and Back to the Future references: Stranger Things has been renewed for Season 3, Netflix announced Friday. Series co-creators the Duffer Brothers previously confirmed that a potential third season would jump ahead a year (presumably) to 1985, when the aforementioned classics ruled the box office.
“Even if we wanted to hop into the action faster, we couldn’t,” Matt Duffer told The Hollywood Reporter. “Our kids are aging. We can only write and produce the show so fast. They’re going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting Season 3… [so] it forces you to do a time jump.”
The Duffer Brothers also hinted that Season 3 would feature a rematch between Mind Flyer and Eleven, telling THR that the shadow monster is “very much aware of the kids, and particularly Eleven. It had not encountered her and her powers until that final episode. Now it knows that she’s out there.”
Stranger Things‘ second season was, by all accounts, a smashing success. Although Netflix doesn’t release viewership data, Nielsen reported that a total of 15.8 million people watched the first episode during its first three days of availability (starting Oct. 27), putting it right on par with The Walking Dead‘s recent Live+3 DVR numbers.
Returning for Season 3 are series regulars Winona Ryder (Joyce, David Harbour (Jim), Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Noah Schnapp (Will), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Cara Buono (Karen), Natalia Dyer (Nancy), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan), Joe Keery (Steve), Dacre Montgomery (Billy), and Sadie Sink (Max).
There’s no word regarding Season 3’s episode count. For frame of reference, Seasons 1 and 2 consisted of 8 and 9 episodes, respectively.
WHO is Cara Buono, and why is she in the beginning credits??
Plays Mike and Nancy’s mother.
Or Nancy’s sister, according to Billy ;)
It’s a shame she doesn’t get more things to do
I hope they make a reference to the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. That’s who the characters should have dressed up as Halloween for (though I guess being short two girls would have made it weird). Better sooner rather than latter, before they grow out of it. It would be cool to see all of them playing D&D dressed up as the characters from the toon.
For some reason, I thought it was already renewed through season four.
I think the Duffer Bros. had already said that they envisioned it going 4 seasons total – that might be what you are thinking of
What a shock ;) Maybe we’ll get 10 episodes next year.
Looks like the show isn’t planning to throw Charlie Heaton away after his little problem. Could be problematic if he’s not allowed back into the country.
His drug test at the airport was negative.. So..
SO excited! But do we really need Billy back? No, we don’t.
Will they just stall again and recycle season one plots with different characters or the very same characters?
Any word if Paul Reiser will be returning? I know you was supposed to be a borderline bad guy, but I liked the character.
Vocabulary choice was great and apart from that this article really had a nice flow throughout