

The culty Warriors vibe the Duffer Brothers were trying to accomplish was seen by many as kitschy and off-putting. The show left the confines of Hawkins and into the big city where we were introduced to Kali and her punk rock friends. This led to talking about the polarizing standalone seventh episode of the season titled “The Lost Sister.” People were all up in their feelings about the episode that reunited Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven with Kali (a.k.a. “But it builds from there - I wanted people to think ‘Did I click on the wrong show?’ This introduced a major new character and explored different tones and opened it up to a new world.” Vulture Festival “We just wanted to do a car chase – it’s really childish,” said Matt Duffer. They also had different intentions for that opening scene. The scene was remarkably different for Stranger Things and the Duffer Brothers admitted that they wanted it to be a departure for them. She was introduced in the very first episode which included a car chase and a display of her powers. That said, the Duffers said that they conceived the character for Reiser.īut one of the most memorable characters of the new season was Berthelsen’s Kali, Eleven’s sister from another mister with supernatural powers. “Two of my favorite movies of all time are Aliens and Diner,” said Matt Duffer. Even with some of the new characters like Sean Astin’s fan-favorite Bob was supposed to die earlier in the season but ended up staying on longer because Astin helped developed him into a vital character to the story.Īs for casting Reiser for the new character of Dr. Other surprising details about the season had a lot to do with a change of characters and narrative such as Berthelsen’s Kali was originally written as a thirtysomething man (imagine that) and that the bromance we all fell in love with between Dustin and Steve wasn’t originally in the script. “A debate about candy bars can get heated,” joked Matt Duffer.

Speaking to that, the brothers admitted that the show’s nerdy pop culture stories and details are a result of actual arguments coming out of the writers’ room including the discussion between the four core boys on who should be which Ghostbuster as well as the great Three Musketeers candy bar debate.

Highlights included how the hurdles they had to jump to use the Ghostbusters costumes and how Matt and Ross actually talked to Ivan Reitman to get permission to use the iconic jumpsuits. 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' Trailer: Teaser For New Stage Play Hints At "What Comes Next" Preview Date Set, Performances Selling Out
