Netflix Officially Green-Lights Third Season Of ‘Stranger Things’ And People Are Very, Very Excited

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Is it Christmas already? On Thursday, Netflix announced we’re getting a second season of Mindhunter and now today they revealed that they have green-lit season three of Stranger Things.

Netflix made the reveal in a tweet Friday morning that read, “FOR THE LOVE OF STEVE, DUH! So hold tight baby darts — season 3 is officially happening.”

The official Stranger Things Twitter account then responded to Netflix in the affirmative, “Oh. Yes. Ok. On it. cc: @strangerwriters.”

It’s pretty easy to see why the series was renewed again. According to a press release posted Friday morning by Netflix…

Stranger Things received 18 Emmy nominations this year (with five wins) and was honored with the 2017 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, as well as the 2017 Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television — Drama from the Producers Guild of America.

The series is critically acclaimed, currently Certified Fresh, with a 94% rating for both Season 1 and Season 2 on Rotten Tomatoes.

There was also this endorsement…

As for what expect in season three, we have been treated to some early ideas, thanks to the Duffer brothers…

In the context of the show, Stranger Things 2 took place slightly less than a year after the events of the first season. Will that same formula follow suit for season three? The final image of the most recent episode — the Mind Flayer lording over Hawkins Middle School from the shadow dimension known as the Upside Down — could lead viewers to believe the next season will pick up immediately after the Snow Ball dance. But in conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the Duffers confirmed some form of time jump will occur between seasons.

“Even if we wanted to hop into the action faster, we couldn’t,” Matt Duffer previously told THR. “Our kids are aging. We can only write and produce the show so fast. They’re going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting season three. It provides certain challenges. You can’t start right after season two ended. It forces you to do a time jump. But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show. It forces the show to evolve and change, because the kids are changing. Even if we wanted it to be static and we wanted to continually recycle the same storyline — and we don’t — we would be unable to, just because the kids are changing. It’s cool, though. The audience is going to be able to watch these kids come of age every year. The closest example is Harry Potter. Watching those kids and actors grow up in front of the camera was, to me, very powerful. I mean, I wasn’t a kid when I experienced that, and I can only imagine if you were a kid and you were their age, it would have been even more powerful. That’s what I’m excited about. It’s a long way of saying that yeah, we’re going to do a time jump.”

Needless to say, people on the internet are very excited…

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Same, Bob, same. Miss you, buddy.