It doesn't sound like Winona Ryder's Joyce Byers is going to chill out at all in Season Two of Stranger Things. Remember in the season finale when she finally got Will back and they were all happy and the whole family was back together again? But then Will, that damn kid, goes to the bathroom and pukes up a demon slug and has an Upside Down PTSD flashback? Well, it turns out that wasn't an isolated incident. Entertainment Weekly's cover story has revealed the first major details of the second season, and it seems like Will's slug-puking is still a problem in Hawkins.
"He seems to be seeing images from the Upside Down—the question is whether they're real or not," co-creator Matt Duffer tells EW. "So it seems like he's having some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder." Here's what else we learned from the interview with the Duffer Brothers.
Joyce is still stressed out.
The new season opens on Halloween (the same day it premieres this year), which explains the Ghostbusters costumes from the trailer and early images. Meanwhile, EW describes Joyce Byers as "ultra-fraught" as she tries to make things normal for Will after that whole getting-dragged-into-an-alternate-dimension-by-an-evil-beast thing. But at least she's dating Sean Astin from The Goonies.
Chief Hopper is trying to keep everything quiet.
At least poor, sweet Barb is not totally forgotten: Chief Hopper is trying to keep her disappearance and the events of Season One a secret. "It kind of falls on Hopper to be the voice of authority to say, 'This did happen and this didn't happen,'" actor David Harbour says. "He's struggling with the compromise that takes him to, having to lie and cover things up."
There are some new kids on the block.
Season Two will introduce the brother-sister duo Billy (Dacre Montgomery) and Max (Sadie Sink), with whom not everyone gets along. "Stephen King always has really great human villains," co-creator Matt Duffer said. "The evil in the real world is often as bad or worse than the supernatural evil, so we wanted to introduce a character like that."
And there will be monster pets?
Apparently Dustin will get some sort of "polliwog-like pet." "It's a little creature I get to bond with," said actor Gaten Matarazzo. "It's obviously not from this planet or this dimension."
