Netflix Sets Date for 'Stranger Things' Season 3
by EG
Netflix has set a premiere date for the third season of its hit series Stranger Things. The series' new season will drop right in the middle of the summer of 2019, giving us something to do while we're staying inside out of the heat. Read on for details.
Netflix's first order of business for the new year involves another decade entirely: the 1980s, the era in which the supernatural Duffer Brothers drama Stranger Things is set.
In conjunction with the arrival of 2019, Netflix has announced a July 4 premiere date for season three of Stranger Things, once again starring the likes of Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, David Harbour as police chief Jim Hopper, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler and Millie Bobby Brown as the powerful Eleven.
Netflix revealed the premiere date through a New Year's Eve teaser, set in 1984 with seconds to go until the ball drops during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve special. As is the show's custom, the video goes horribly awry with static, as well as a secret coded message that reads: "When blue and yellow meet in the west." Who knows about what's happening out west, but the teaser itself ends in a different direction entirely: upside down, appropriately enough.
Set in 1985, season three takes place several months following the events of the second season, in which the small town of Hawkins, Ind., was once again plunged into "The Upside Down," the unofficial nickname given to the dark dimension where Demogorgons, Mind Flayers and other monsters dwell. New castmembers include Cary Elwes as slick politician Mayor Kline, Jake Busey as local reporter Bruce and Maya Hawke as Robin, joining Joe Keery's Steve Harrington as an employee at the Starcourt Mall — a new development bound to serve as a central setting for season three. Priah Ferguson, one of the breakout stars from season two, will reprise her role as Erica Sinclair (sister to Caleb McLaughlin's Lucas) in season three.
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