David Harbour Says The First 5-Minutes of STRANGER THINGS Season 2 Will Throw Us For a Loop

Going into the second season of any series, you worry if it's going to tread over old water or old stones or whatever the hell you tread over twice. The point is, you don't want to just do the exact same thing as you did the season before, and it sounds like Stranger Things is definitely planning on making some different choices.

David Harbour, who plays Sheriff Hopper, recently chatted with The Hollywood Reporter about the beginning of the series and how much it might depart from the original in the first few minutes even:

"The first five minutes, you're not going to know you're watching Stranger Things. You're going to be checking the thing: 'Did I put on something else?' Then something happens in the last part of those five minutes where you realize we've opened up the world in a fresh new way, and we introduce some new concepts."

What does it mean? This is so cryptic. As I try to imagine what would make me not think I'm watching Stranger Things, the first thing to come to mind is if it opened on a Spanish soap opera. That would confuse the hell out of me. But I doubt it will go that far. When asked to hopefully go more in depth on what some of these new concepts were, Harbour was careful not to give too much away but did say how much Stranger Things will grow and change;

"It's things the fans have mentioned and have been talking about. I don't want to bring up what those are specifically, but we delve into questions that you guys had about the past histories of these people. It really opens up the world, and then the whole world is able to get bigger and darker and weirder. I think people are going to be really blown away."

I am so excited for what it might show. My first thought is possibly Sheriff Hopper's child. That would be crazy. Really though, anything could happen with a show like this. I love that it will be disorienting to people. A strong yet confusing opening will be very intriguing. When I. think of openings like that, I think of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with the opening being Anything Goes in Chinese. My first time watching it, I was completely confused that when the action hit, I was just trying to keep up and was blown away. 

Stranger Things has yet to fail me so far, I only expect good things to come.

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