Netflix's breakout series, "Stranger Things," is getting beefed up for Season 2. Series director Shawn Levy offered new plot details abound in the new installment, which he revealed will be composed of nine episodes.
Speaking with Collider, the director teased what fans of "Stranger Things" can expect on the show's sophomore season on Netflix. Levy, who has directed a couple of episodes during the freshman season, is set to return again to helm the third and fourth episodes of Season 2. Discussing the show's early plot details, Levy said that the new installment will tackle the theme of normalcy within the Byers storyline.
"Will Byers was in that Upside Down for a while," Levy said.
"So Season 2 is about this determined desire to return to normalcy in Hawkins, in the Byers family, in that group of friends, and it's the struggle to reclaim normalcy and maybe the impossibility of it."
Discussing Season 2's timeline, Levy stayed mum about whether or not the first episode will feature a time jump of some sorts. He did say, however, that it will not pick up the next day after.
He also touched on the show's second season premiere date, where he confirmed that there's no way that it is getting launched by spring of 2017. That being said, the site projected the new season to premiere by late summer or fall of next year.
On casting, it was announced this week that "Stranger Things" has added new actors in Season 2. According to Deadline, producers have recruited Paul Reiser, Sean Astin and Linnea Berthelsen to play significant characters in the new episodes.
Reiser has been tapped to play Dr. Owens, a member of the Dept. of Energy who is tasked to contain last year's events. Astin will play Bob Newby, the kind-hearted manager of the local Hawkins Radioshack. Then there's Berthelsen's character, Roman - an emotional young woman who holds a mysterious connection to the supernatural events at the lab.
"Stranger Things" also stars Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Mille Bobby Brown.