What's Coming in 'Stranger Things' Season 2?
by EG
A new season of Stranger Things will be available for binge-watching on Netflix beginning on Friday. Until then, the impending events of season 2 are anyone's guess. Read on for some predictions from The Hollywood Reporter.
Something wicked is on its way to Hawkins.
The second season of Netflix's Stranger Things premieres Friday, bringing with it a whole host of expectations. How can the Duffer Brothers possibly top their first year on the show, which centered on the disappearance of a young boy named Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), the arrival of a mysterious young girl named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), and the Upside Down dimension that drew both figures and others into its horrible vortex? Season one burst onto the scene without warning, and became a massive hit in large part due to its subsequent shock factor. Can season two meet the same level, given all of the hype?
The question of how season two shakes out against season one will be answered imminently — as will all of these wild predictions about what to expect from the newest iteration of Stranger Things. With mere hours standing in the way before we return to Hawkins, here are seven of our eleventh hour predictions about what the future holds for season two.
1. There Will Be Barb
Not the boldest prediction in the book, given how much love there is within the Stranger Things fan community and the Stranger Things family at large for Shannon Purser's turn as Barbara Holland, the other young Hawkins local who disappeared around the same time as Will Byers — except she never turned up. At least not until season two, when viewers should fully expect some form of "Justice for Barb," with a cameo from Purser to boot. Really, if Stranger Things manages to make it through an entire second season without bringing Barb directly back into the mix, it deserves highest praise for exercising such restraint under enormous fan pressure to do otherwise.
2. Acid For Blood
It's no secret that the Duffer Brothers are drawing upon Aliens for inspiration this season. Ever since the first iteration of Stranger Things concluded, the creators have expressed their love for the James Cameron action classic, and used it as a point of reference for their second year of the show. In that regard, here's one way Stranger Things may pay homage to the second saga of Ellen Ripley: a scene in which someone mistakenly destroys a monster (or an otherwise foreign object) from the Upside Down, resulting in some sort of fatal acidic splash back, ala the death of a certain marine midway into Aliens.
3. Seven Eleven
At the end of season one, Millie Bobby Brown's telekinetic wunderkind vanished into thin air, right after solving Hawkins' Demogorgon problem. Well, solved for the moment, anyway. In any case, Eleven's gone, and no one knows what happened to her. If Stranger Things wants to boldly push that sense of suspense forward, the show would be wise to keep her away from the action until deep into season two, taking advantage of the binge format in order to have a huge payoff late in the story. Our prediction (though really it's more of a hope): Eleven sits this one out until episode seven of nine. Not an intentional Star Trek shoutout, but it would be a voyage all the same.
Get more predictions at The Hollywood Reporter.
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