Will Stranger Things return to Netflix any time soon? Ever since the hit adventure series came to its (supposed) conclusion last holiday season, hardcore fans have been convinced that the Duffer Brothers have one more season of the live action Stranger Things up their sleeves. (The charming animated series Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 apparently isn’t enough for them!) So what’s the truth about when new episodes and next seasons of Stranger Things will arrive on Netflix? And do we have a timeline for Stranger Things return?
Here’s everything you need to know about the future of Stranger Things on Netflix; specifically the return of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 to the streaming platform…
Are New Episodes of Stranger Things Coming to Netflix? What We Know About the Next Season of Stranger Things:
I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but the live action Stranger Things series is done. Stranger Things Season 5 was the end. “Conformity Gate” is not real; it’s a fan theory that exploded on TikTok and became, like Slender Man, an internet fiction that people in the real world believe is fact.
That said, there are technically new episodes of “Stranger Things” coming to Netflix this fall. The animated spin-off series Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 is returning for Season 2 soon.
What Is Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 About?
The Netflix animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 is set, as you might have guessed, in 1985, in between the events of the second and third seasons of Stranger Things.
Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 introduces a new kid attending Hawkins Middle School who joins the gang on their various adventures in the Upside Down. Nikki Baxter (voiced by none other than recent Academy Award nominee Odessa A’zion) is apparently a key part of the crew, even though she’s never seen or even mentioned in the main series.
When Does Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Season 2 Come Out?
Need to mainline all things Eleven, Will, Hopper, Steve Harrington, and the Upside Down? Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 will return to Netflix soon!
All eight episodes of Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Season 2 will be streaming on Netflix on Thursday, September 17 at 12:01 AM PT (or 3:01 AM ET).
When Does Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Take Place in the Stranger Things Timeline?
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Season 2 takes place around Valentine’s Day 1985. So, yes, in between the winter formal “Snow Ball” that caps off the end of Stranger Things Season 2 and the summer of ’85 setting of Season 3.
According to the season’s official logline: “With Valentine’s Day on the way, the gang must uncover the truth
behind ghostly apparitions and a swarm of strange creatures causing chaos around town.”
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Cast:
Wondering if that’s Millie Bobby Brown voicing Eleven and Sadie Sink acting as Max in Stranger Things: Tales from ’85? Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 actually features a (mostly) all new cast. (That’s because Robert Englund, who played Victor Creel in Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 4 “Dear Billy” plays Cosmo in the animated series.)
Here’s who’s who in Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 on Netflix:
- Brooklyn Davey Norstedt as Eleven
- Jolie Hoang-Rappaport as Max
- Luca Diaz as Mike
- Elisha “EJ” Williams as Lucas
- Braxton Quinney as Dustin
- Ben Plessala as Will
- Brett Gipson as Hopper
- Odessa A’zion as Nikki Baxer
- Janeane Garofalo as Anna Baxter
- Lou Diamond Phillips as Daniel Fischer.
