Stranger Things season 2: Eleven's alive! Five things we learnt from the final trailer
As a suitably spooky Friday 13th treat, Netflix has released the final trailer for the new series of Stranger Things.
The Eighties-set horror drama returns for its second season on October 27, after the first series became one of last year's most talked-about TV shows.
In the new trailer, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) realises that her son Will (Noah Schnapp) is still suffering from the after-effects of his time in the Upside Down, the shadowy parallel dimension where he found himself trapped in the show's first series.
Meanwhile, we also briefly see Sadie Sink as Max, the latest addition to the group of schoolfriends led by intrepid Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), and glimpse a menacing new monster towering over the landscape. Here are the five main points
1. Eleven's alive! And she has curly hair!
Although Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) was seemingly torn apart at the end of the previous series, the new trailer opens with the sight of her trudging through a winter landscape to pick up her favourite snack - an Eggo toaster waffle - left behind for her by Chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour). Fans worried about the young telepath's plight can breathe a sigh of relief. Also exciting is glimpse of her new hairstyle, which makes a refreshing change from the buzzcut she sported in the first series.
2. The new monster is enormous
"On Halloween night, Will saw a sort of shadow..." We see it too, and the huge, tentacular shape looms large over Will's home town of Hawkins, Indiana. It makes the "Demogorgon" that stalked the woods in the first series look comparatively tiny.
3. They're going back to Hawkins Lab
At the end of the first series, we still hadn't solved the issue of exactly what was going on in the shady laboratory run by the Department of Energy, and that interdimensional rift remained dangerously ajar. Perhaps inevitably, we'll soon be back inside the creepiest research institute on TV. Shudder.
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4. The gross stuff is growing!
"It's not like it was before," warns Hopper. "It's grown". And, indeed, the creepy organic tissue that formed a pulsing, oozing portal to another dimension in the cracked wall of Hawkins lab seems to be spreading. It doesn't bode well.
5. We might meet some of the other 10
The trailer features a brief clip of Hopper racing down a corridor that resembles the ones at Hawkins Lab, carrying over his shoulder a child dressed in a medical gown identical to the one Eleven sported in the first series. If, as her name suggests, she wasn't the first victim of Dr Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) and his strange experiments, it's possible there are at least 10 other telepaths out there waiting to be rescued – perhaps even Hopper's missing daughter?
