Stranger Things Season Two Will Jump Ahead Two Years
The problem with human beings is that they age. Why, you yourself have aged just by reading this very sentence! However, if you’re young and on TV, that fickle aging process could end up turning continuity on its ear.
That’s why the cleverbods, the Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross, who are working on the second season of Stranger Things have decided to move with the ageing process, setting that potentially difficult second run (I’m looking at you True Detective) two years ahead of the events of season one.
It’s a move that actor Charlie Heaton agrees with. Returning as Jonathan Byers, he told Entertainment Tonight, “I think they wanted to let things settle, but [because] there are kids in the show — the actors also have grown a year, so we couldn’t have followed straight on.”
Not that he feels anyone will notice as, despite the year jump, things will pick up where they left off. Noting it feels like the show will have a larger scope in season two (“Episodes one through four are gonna be a ride”), Heaton says, “You follow these characters a year later, and you’re straight back in the world of Hawkins.”
Season two has already gone into production and, as is tradition, we’ve had our first tweet from the official twitter account of the first all-cast table read.
Heaton will be joined by the rest of the first season cast, with the additions of Dacre Montgomery and Sadie Sink. As they did on season one, Matt and Ross Duffer will be scripting all nine episodes.
