A good follow-up season that may not live up to enormous strengths of the first, but does enough to keep us interested and excited for what comes next. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 19 A recap of the second season of the Netflix hit Stranger Things, covering the characters' journeys, the new villains, and the lingering creepiness of the Upside Down. Find out what happened to Will, Nancy, Steve, and the gang in the year after the first season. The final episode of Stranger Things 2, titled "The Gate," offered a mostly satisfying conclusion to the action-packed season with only a few unanswered questions left dangling in the Upside It was July, hot and sunny, a time of year usually reserved for bad TV right before fall comes and brings an ever-increasing wave of new, better shows. It was surprising, then, that Stranger • The season winds down with all roads converging on the same mission: Eleven returns to Hawkins and finally reunites with Mike, just in time to use her telekinetic powers to destroy the Mind After last episode's cliffhanger, Dustin comes home with something in his Ghostbusters chamber. He's detained by his mom in one of the show's funniest scenes to date, both of them giggling Stranger Things 2, the second season of the Netflix original Stranger Things, was released on October 27, 2017. It consists of nine episodes ranging from forty-five to sixty-two minutes in length. Stranger Things 2 was confirmed by Netflix on August 31, 2016 for a 2017 release. Though Stranger Things has branched out into several intriguing storylines since season 1, Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven remains the center of it all. Since her mysterious arrival, strange occurrences have plagued Hawkins, Indiana, and its residents. Much of this was revealed to be connected to her time in Hawkins Lab and Henry Creel's transformation into Vecna, which simultaneously created a T54XYK.