Stranger Things season 2 is more of a 'sequel', creators cryptically tease

We'll see more of that 30-page document

The creators of Netflix’s Stranger Things have described season 2 as “not a second season as much as a sequel”, in an intriguing, if a little vague, tease of what’s to come.

The 80s movie-inspired series proved a surprisingly big hit for the streaming service, leading it to snap up a second outing soon after the first one dropped.

Of its non-clear cut ending, Matt Duffer told IGN: “We don’t answer all the questions by the end of the season - there are definitely some dangling threads.

“The hope is that it feels satisfying but that we left room and that if people respond to it we can go back into this world. But if we do get to go back, it’s not a second season as much as a sequel.”

Read into this what you will, but I guess he means that, while the new episodes will steal deal with plot strands from the first, it will very much be its own beast.

Matt’s brother and co-creator Ross echoed his thoughts to Variety, adding that they will be “revealing more of that 30-page document” but still want to “keep it from the point of view of our original characters”.

“There’s a lot there we don’t know or understand,” he said. “Even with ‘The Upside Down,’ we have a 30-page document that is pretty intricate in terms of what it all means, and where this monster actually came from, and why aren’t there more monsters — we have all this stuff that we just didn’t have time for, or we didn’t feel like we needed to get into in season one, because of the main tension of Will.

“We have that whole other world that we haven’t fully explored in this season, and that was very purposeful.”

Stranger Things season 2 has yet to be given a release date.