SNAPSHOT
Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived. (synopsis via Coming Soon)
As someone who lived through 1984 at an age when I could cast a somewhat informed nascent-adult eye over things – I was in my first year of university and felt ridiculously grown up as you tend to do in the first rush of freedom after high school – I can attest to the fact that it was a bit of an odd year.
Granted my experience had more to do with surviving dorm life, getting great grades and not getting lost on the busy-filled Nathan (Brisbane) campus of Griffith University than fending off strange, otherworldly goings-on.
But as this very clever new promo video for Stranger Things season 2 illustrates all too well, with the requisite amount of Halloween creepiness of course, there was a lot of decidedly abnormal stuff going on all across the world, a precursor perhaps to a breakthrough into our domain by The Upside Down.
It’s a brilliant way of building suspense ahead of season 2’s premiere on Netflix on 27 October, and makes you wonder just how much of the last 30 years or so is a dark, nefarious plot by forces beyond our imagining.
(source: Laughing Squid)