When Stranger Things made a silent entry with its first season and first of its kind show; little had anyone anticipated it was here to leave a solid mark or rather so not going to leave our hearts at all. The Season-1 arrived with little or equivalent to no ballyhoo but swept a dedicated fandom off their feet. This year, we definitely had our all-things-vintage set for the arrival of Season-2 except for the energy rush that I’d say was hot off the press. Now that Stranger Things Season 2 has hatched its darker plot and already making some wild business out of it; here’s a quick dekko of how far has it scaled people’s expectations.

Season-1 ends with El (Millie Bobby Brown) sacrificing her life for the sake of her friends, the ones who had been bailing her out of the danger she had been evading; but we know she has a notable comeback here (thanks to Instagram memes, if you haven’t watched the Season-2 yet). Recapping another episode from Season-1, remember how Will (was still having a hard time recovering from his horrible kidnap) had last given us hints of what to expect from Season-2 by throwing up a wretched slimy creature. We are happy for Joyce that she has her son back but watching Will struggle with the aftermath that renders Joyce helpless shatters the heart into smithereens.

To sum up, we have the entire Stranger Things cast knit together; but wait did I mention Barb (Shannon Purser)? Ah, yes she is still missing. The mise-de-scene is Hawkins, Indiana in its atypical Eighties, where the civilians are still befuddled from the horrors of the Upside Down and the demagorgons or more specifically the Hawkins laboratory’s secrecy that cost many their sanity and peace and to some their lives. The Season-2 introduces many new protagonists but here’s a new face altogether who reels out many questions. Well, Lucas and Dustin (Gatin Matarazzo) seem to have a new interest catching their attention- the new girl Max (Sadie Sink). There is no mention of her parent’s whereabouts except there’s some mention of an older brother Billy who actually plays the bad boy better than Steve. The most obvious Steve-Nancy-Jonathan love ternion is clearly present.

Each episode gives you newer, stranger suspenses that keep you all agog for what’s next- Season 2 is equally worth being binge-watched. The Duffer Brothers clearly gave a new definition to horror and fiction with this series. The young boys have still hold on to their usual bromance and arguments but the Duffer Brothers have turned up the heat on the viewers with more grim an aftermath from season 1.
This new season has already inspired another batch of fresh memes, fanfiction and loads of new terms to google, for instance, have you ever heard of a pollywog? But is Season-2 the ultimate end? (hands a towel before breaking the news), the jolly news is that the Duffer Brothers are not signing off, no, not yet. The last episode of season 2 is all happy-go-lucky until we are bade adieu by the Shadow Monster in the Upside Down. STRING! Like the crew tweeted long back before the release of Season-2, the same actually holds true for the entire series “some doors can’t be closed.”

Stranger Things 2 is now streaming on Netflix.