Stranger Things Season 2 Confirmed With New Video 

Stranger Things Season 2 Confirmed With New Video

The second season of the hit Netflix sci-fi thriller will debut in 2017.

In an expected move, Netflix announced today that it has renewed

It made the announcement in a video that lists off what appear to be episode titles. Some of them contain possible references to the events of Season 1, so be aware of that. Season 2 debuts in 2017.

Season 2 takes place in the fall of 1984, which is around a year after the events of Season 1.

had eight episodes, so Season 2, with its nine chapters, is one episode longer. Creators/writers Matt and Ross Duffer are returning of course, alongside producers Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Matt and Ross Duffer.

renewal is good news for fans, as Season 1 ended on a number of cliffhangers. Though the Season 2 announcement only came today, Matt and Ross Duffer have been talking openly for a while now about their plans for a "darker and weirder" second season.

As confirmed previously, Season 2 will have a self-contained story, just like the first season. While the season may end with some unanswered questions (the first season certainly did), the idea is to create a "new tension" and have the characters resolve it by the end, Ross and Duffer said.

Netflix doesn\'t release viewership figures, but a third-party report said the \'80s-set

had 14.07 million viewers aged 18-49 in its first 35 days. The only Netflix programs that paced ahead that were

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