Netflix's love letter to the '80s, Stranger Things, has reminded everyone how much they loved that decade, tubby kids with curly hair and, erm, Eggos.
So fans of that decade - including lots of people who weren't even alive back then - will be delighted there's already a third series in the works.
Speaking to Collider, the show's producer/director Shawn Levy said they don't want to rush a potential third instalment, so are already preparing.
He said: "We are not gonna be caught off guard and we don't wanna be making stuff up like the day before we have to write it and make it, so we are definitely optimistic and we have started thinking ahead."
You might remember that Netflix straight up lied to everyone by commissioning a second seasons before the first even premiered, meaning your screams for a follow-up (we assume you screamed) were wasted breath.
The good news is that season two actually began filming this week (November 7) and it's expected to be one episode longer, according to Shawn.
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So what could Stranger Things season 3 have in store? Perhaps Eleven's hair will have grown back? Perhaps Winona Ryder's character might laugh for the first time, rather than blubber endlessly. And maybe, just maybe, we'll FINALLY get some justice for Barb, goddammit.
We do know that the second season should pick up with Will Byers' return home and his weird new habit of vomiting slugs into the sink. Plus we can expect the continued adventures of Eleven, perhaps in the woods, but probably not.
The show has also cast a host of new characters, including two '80s heavyweights. Sean Astin from The Goonies will play Bob Newby, a school friend of Hopper and Joyce's. Meanwhile, Paul Reiser (who played that asshole Burke from Aliens) has been hired to play "a high-ranking member within the Department of Energy on a 'clean-up' assignment, tasked with containing the events of last year".
Levy told Collider: "Will Byers was in that Upside Down for a while. So Season 2 is about this determined desire to return to normalcy in Hawkins, in the Byers family, in that group of friends, and it's the struggle to reclaim normalcy and maybe the impossibility of it."
We know Hopper has made some kind of deal with the government agents, as we saw them drive him away in the finale. But afterwards he still hid Eggos in the woods for Eleven, so maybe he's been tasked with catching our favourite baldy? Or is he just trying to double-cross them?
We'll turn the internet upside down trying to find some answers for you, but for now, we'll all just have to wait until 2017 for Netflix to bless us with the next season.
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