Stranger Things 2 is Coming to Netflix in 2017

Will Barb finally get her revenge? Is Eleven alive, so she and Mike can make out again? You'll find out in 2017. Netflix has confirmed Stranger Things will return for a second season next year of nine episodes—one more than the first.

Series creators/writers/brothers Matt and Ross Duffer are on board for season two. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly the brothers revealed the second season will return to Hawkins, Indiana, and although "the pair toyed around initially with flashing forward a bit… [they settled] on continuing the story in 1984."

"We talked like a larger time jump where the kids are older now and it's a different decade," Ross Duffer told the magazine. "But for us, there's still more story here [in the 1980s], there's still things that are unresolved."

Of course, that likely means we'll be seeing Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) again. Plus Winona Ryder—hopefully with slightly less fairy lights—and at least four new characters.

However, the Duffer Brothers were tight lipped about Eleven—whether she's even alive, whether she'll be back in time for Snowball.

"We don't know about Eleven," Ross told EW. "We leave that up in the air."

While the brothers didn't spill any spoilers about Barb either—whether you love her or hate her—they did say season two will venture even further into (her new home) the Upside Down. "We kinda just peeled back the curtain and revealed a tiny bit of the Upside Down," says Matt.

"[There are] a lot of questions there in terms of, if the Monster is dead, was it a singular monster? What else could be out there? We really don't go in there much until they go in to find Will at the end," Ross added. "So we've opened up this doorway, and to us it's exciting to talk about, like, what else is behind there?

"There's a lot more mystery there to be solved."

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