STRANGER THINGS Composers Confirm That We'll Spend More Time in the Upside Down in Season 2
I know it has some haters out there, but I absolutely adored the first season of Netflix's Stranger Things. I've seen complaints that it's nothing more than a pastiche of genre tropes thrown together, but I think the way the show clearly loved its characters and found evocative ways to tell its story (which, sure, referenced ton of '80s movies in the process) was a hell of a lot of fun.
We've known for a while that season 2 would be a little darker than season 1, but now the composers of the show's score — Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein — have confirmed that in a new interview with The Vinyl Factory (via The Playlist). Dixon said:
“We are working on it. It should be interesting. I think they’ve already come out and said that things are going to be a bit darker and weirder. We’ve yet to really see what that looks like...I mean, it’s always kind of hard to tell what’s going to work until you get in there. Hopefully, it’s a bit weirder this time. I’m sure it will be weirder, because I think they are going to spend a little more time in the Upside Down this season."
Sounds like the Super Bowl trailer wasn't lying, and we're going to see some messed-up stuff in (and under) the town of Hawkins, Indiana this Halloween.