Netflix Confirmed a Season Three Premiere Date for "Stranger Things"

After months of waiting, we can finally plan our return trip to Hawkins, Indiana. Stranger Things officially announced a premiere date for season three, and we're already marking our calendars and starting a countdown.

Just as the clock struck midnight on January 1, Stranger Things made a big announcement on its Twitter account, telling fans that the Netflix series would return on July 4, 2019.

Along with a confirmed release date, the show also gave us a small peek of what's to come, posting an eerie promotional image. In the photograph, Eleven is holding hands with Mike. The remaining members of our favorite Demogorgon fighting gang appear to be transfixed by fireworks overhead, but Eleven and Will Byers are both looking back, seemingly concerned by what's lurking in the darkness. An accompanying caption on the photo reads: "One summer can change everything." Yes, I'm kinda scared, too.

In addition to the tweeted image, Netflix also shared a teaser trailer. The short clip — which mixed video from Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve in 1985 with distorted images — seems totally normal, until we hear a voice yell out Eleven's name.

There's no word on what exactly will change this summer (hopefully Joe Keery keeps his signature Steve Harrington hairstyle), but the show had previously revealed the title of every episode in season three. Back at the beginning of December, a short teaser trailer ran through some of the upcoming chapters, promising a season that features "The Mall Rats," and a later epsiode titled "The Battle of Starcourt."

Fans have long had their theories about what the upcoming season might include, but cast and crew from the series have kept the secrets of Hawkins closely guarded. Along with confirmation that Priah Ferguson and Maya Hawke would be joining the series, David Harbour (Hopper), had also promised that viewers would be in for one thrilling ride. "This season they just came up with this arc and this idea that's so original and so new that and so fun," he said. "What I can tell you is this, like you see season one you see season two and we're playing with the same alphabet of these '80s epics, but we're kinda throwing out the model again and sort of expanding these characters in ways that you wouldn't expect them to go in."

OK, I'm off to watch season one and two on repeat until July.

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