While this year’s Super Bowl was apparently one of the best in history, for us the most exciting thing to come out of it all was the reveal of the Stranger Things Series 2 release during its commercial spot. There were a fair few other big name trailers on show, including Pirates Of The Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Transformer: The Last Knight and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, but it was the Netflix original that got us most excited.
We already knew quite a lot about the films, but with the 80s sci-fi horror sequel it was all new and all pretty freaky. It was only a short trailer that went out, which you can watch below, but it gave us our first taste of what to expect from the second season. If the weird, giant spider thing half way through is anything to go by then it should be bigger and scarier than the first multi-dimensional wonder. You can also check out trailer 2 to see more of the action from the second series.
Release date
In addition to super monsters, the trailer also confirmed that Stranger Things Series 2 will be available for Halloween 2017, so you’ll be able to get your fix of sci-fi horror all in one place. While that seemed to indicate that it would be out on the 31st, it went on to be confirmed that it has a UK and worldwide release date of the 27th October 2017, so if anything, you should be able to clear all of the episodes before getting into costume.
As ever, Netflix will be throwing up the entire series at the same time, so you’ll be able to binge on as many episodes as you can before heading off to do some bobbing for apples. Alternatively, you can just stay in, get the Evil Edna costume out again and finish the entire series, while ignoring the eggs pelting your front door and hogging all of the flumps and Fangtastics to yourself.
Things to look out for in the trailer
The giant spider creature appears twice, once looming on the horizon on a dark and scary night, and once sketched on a notepad, and it’s worth rewinding the trailer a couple of times to make sure you see them both. The appearances are only fleeting, but it’s the sketch that appears to be a bit more detailed with a central head and four multi-legged limbs. If that’s what Mike, Will, Dustin and Lucas have got to face this time around then they’re going to need more than BMXs to run away from it.
The good news, though, is that Eleven shows up a couple of times, so maybe she’ll be coming to their rescue once again. Her disappearance at the end of the opening series left a lot of questions, but the tease of the Eggo commercial in the trailer seems to be trying to tell us all something. If you remember one of the final scenes at the end of Series 1, it featured Hopper leaving Eggo waffles and other food out in the forest, so maybe El has got an other-dimensional older brother competing with her for the tasty treats that this dimension has to offer.
We’re big fans of the Ghostbusters costumes that you can see Mike, Dustin and Lucas wearing, but there’s a distinct split between the three and their friend Will in the trailer. Not only does he not get a cool costume, but he isn’t pictured with them once. In fact, the only times he does show up are pretty intense. Either he’s got his head in his hands or he’s looking out the front door at the approach of the giant spider monster, so it’s pretty clear that he’s going to have another bad time of things. If throwing up slug-like creatures and getting fleeting glimpses of the Upside Down alternate universe at the end of the first show wasn’t tough enough, it looks like all hell’s going to break loose for him in Series 2.
Stranger Things Series 2 trailer:
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