Ga.-Filmed 'Stranger Things' Renewed For Third Season: Creators

JACKSON, GA — The second season of Georgia-filmed "Stranger Things" hasn't even started airing yet. But its creators have confirmed that the 80s-themed horror series already has been renewed by Netflix for a third season.

Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer told entertainment site Vulture that a third season, and probably a fourth, are on the way.

"We’re thinking it will be a four-season thing and then out," Ross Duffer said in an interview with the site.

Matt Duffer added that the creative team doesn't want to drag out the series' string of bizarre, supernatural happenings to the point where they become unbelievable.

"We just have to keep adjusting the story,” he said. "Though I don’t know if we can justify something bad happening to them once a year."

Released on July 15, 2016, "Stranger Things" is the story of a young boy who disappears and a girl with unusual abilities who shows up in town to help find him. Winona Ryder plays Joyce Byers, the boy's mother, and David Harbour plays the police chief searching for the missing boy.

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Season One of "Stranger Things" filmed primarily in Jackson, the Butts County seat about 50 miles southeast of Atlanta, as did most of Season Two, which debuts in October.

The show's first season was a hit with critics and fans. Its first 35 days averaged more than 14 million adult viewers between ages 18-49, according to Variety.

In a YouTube video, Netflix announced the titles of Season 2's nine episodes, which it says will take place in the fall of 1984.

They are:

• "Madmax"
• "The Boy Who Came Back To Life"
• "The Pumpkin Patch"
• "The Palace"
• "The Storm"
• "The Pollywog"
• "The Secret Cabin"
• "The Brain"
• "The Lost Brother"

In the Vulture interview, the Duffer Brothers said next season will center on Will, the boy who disappeared into an alternate dimension called The Upside Down, and the repercussions of his return.

"We wanted to push things a bit," Ross Duffer said. "I told Matt, 'I don’t want to call it season two, I just want it to feel like a movie sequel.' If you have a successful movie, No. 2 is always a little bit bigger."

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