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Announced from their official Twitter handle, season two of Stranger Things is coming in 2017. If you look at season one, a lot of 80's iconic horror and sci-fi were referenced in the episodes. It looks like we might get some of what was left out from the 80's easter eggs and references in season two. Check out the video teaser below: The adventure continues. Stranger Things 2 is coming 2017. pic.twitter.com/3H4WR3DGEj — Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) August 31, 2016

The Duffer brothers must have been fans of E.T, The Thing, Goonies, and Strange Invaders because this series is a mix of all those great films, and a decent throw back to those sci fi/horror classics of the 80's. If you have watched those films more than once, you'll catch the subtle Easter eggs that give a nod to the films that inspired this series. It stars Winona Ryder and Matthew Modine. The soundtrack features some great tracks from the 80's along with score that would John Carpenter smile. The story takes place in 1983, a mid-western town where a boy goes missing and his friends know something is wrong, and decide to search on their own. The town is near a government energy facility where experiments and tests are conducted on the level confidentiality that would interest Agent Mulder of the X-Files. Stranger Things is definitely meant for the 'X' generation crowd but serves as a good segway to revisit the films it attempts to imitate. Check out t...