The streaming service recently dropped its trailer for the third season of Stranger Things on Wednesday morning, and it racked about millions of views overnight.
Season three of Netflix’s supernatural original, which follows a group of kids coming of age in the fictional town of Hawkins, Ind., in the 1980s, is set to pack in a lot of the show’s trademark nostalgia when it premieres on July four.
The clip plays to The Who’s Baba O’Riley featuring cassette players, perms, lots of neon prints and the kids spending time at the teenage wasteland also known as the mall.
The thrum of approaching eerie toys is disrupted by the greetings by the boy’s friends which triggers a horrified reaction. The scene is followed by CGI creature grotesquely lopped with sluggish and dynamic stickiness and an equally moribund face
“We’re not kids anymore,” Mike Wheeler (played by Finn Wolfhard) says in the trailer. “I mean, what did you think? We were just going to sit in my basement all day?”
The motley crew of outcasts, comprising the superpowered Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Will (Noah Schnapp), are seen indulging in classic summer activities like running across fields, hitting the local pool, checking out carnival rides … and speaking to the local paper about the unethical research that the sketchy Hawkins Lab was doing in their quiet town, being chased by a government spook armed with a gun.
And Eleven, who spent entire time running from the government agents who wanted to continue conducting experiments on her, is shown finally living a mundane life and bonding with Max (Sadie Sink) over ice cream and magazines.
We can’t wait to watch the season.