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Stranger Things turned our world Upside Down (ahem) last year leaving us wanting more and now a few more details are starting to creep out about Stranger Things season 2, including when it’ll be set and just what has happened since Will Byers returned.

As first reported by HollywoodLife (via Screen Rant), actor David Harbour (good guy cop Jim Hopper) made waves with a season 2 reveal during a Fan2Sea Comic-Con cruise: “It’s a year later in the story, so there are several things that happened last year… There are certain people in the town that know what happened, and then certain people that don’t,” before adding, “[T]here’s a lot of fallout with who knows what.”

It sounds like Stranger Things will try and open up the town of Hawkins, Indiana. The fictional Midwest location was largely untroubled in season 1 by, y’know, a mysterious institute on their doorstep and several people going missing or dying. These things tend to get noticed eventually…

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It seems Jim, who previously had the hots for Winona Ryder’s character Joyce Byers, has a new love rival in the shape of an old classmate of Jim and Joyce, played by newcomer Sean Astin. In fact, he’s “Winona’s new boyfriend… much to the chagrin of the Chief of Police.” Expect tension and probably plenty of fisticuffs between Jim and Joyce's new man.

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