Happy Stranger Things Day! The stars send season’s greetings from the set of season 3

Today, November 6, is a very important day…for two reasons. One of them is because Netflix has declared it Stranger Things Day, to commemorate the day Will Byers vanished back in 1983, setting off a weird string of events that led to nightmare creatures from the beyond invading the town of Hawkins, Indiana. Odd thing to commemorate, right?

Anyway, to remind us that this is the only thing we need to think about today, the Stranger Things Twitter account posted a little video from the set of the show’s third season. Enjoy:

That’s Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Finn Wolfhard (Mike), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Sadie Sink (Max), and Noah Schnapp (Will Byers) in their ’80s duds wishing us all a happy Stranger Things Day from the set. Lucas in particular looks like he’s going to have an interesting season, sartorially speaking.

To help get you in the spirit of this joyous occasion, we’ve put together some interesting tidbits about season 3. Let’s hit the bad news first: the show’s third season won’t hit Netflix until the summer of 2019. That’s a long wait, but according to Netflix’s vice president of original content Cindy Holland, the Duffer Brothers want to “deliver something bigger and better than what they did last year. And so, they really want to take the time to get it right.”

The closest thing we have to a trailer so far is this commercial for a new mall in Hawkins…which honestly might be better:

Beyond that, the cast and members have made a bunch of interesting comments, with director and executive producer Shawn Levy saying that season 3 is “definitely going to yet darker places that I think audiences are going to really love. It’s got so much heart and humor.” And there’s more:

• Finn Wolfhard (Mike: “I don’t know much about it because we get the scripts as we go along. But yeah, it’s set in 1985, in the summer. It’s the summer of love — that’s all I can say, really.”

• David Harbour (Sheriff Hopper): “I think we’ll start to see [Hopper] take more risks with these new languages of intimacy and vulnerability and maybe we’ll start to see that he has needs that he hasn’t expressed before. That’s exciting to watch him open up in that way. Of course, he’s going to flail and be horrible at it too, which is always fun as well.”
• Jake Busey will join the cast of season 3 as a morally corrupt journalist. “This is a character who is fully living in that time period. He doesn’t mind making fun of women and children. He doesn’t mind poking fun at someone else’s expense, that type of thing. He’s just a crass newsman.” We’ve also heard that the season will draw inspiration from the 1985 Chevy Chase movie Fletch, about a smooth-talking journalist. Things are lining up there.

• The Princess Bride star Cary Elwes is another newcomer, playing the selfish Mayor Kline.
• Stranger Things casting director Carmen Cuba talked about how hush-hush her job is this year: “There’s a certain storyline that’s challenging that we have to keep going back to the well for. There’s a lot of secrecy, and we can’t say what parts we’re looking for, so it’s still a weird challenge. I know that if we said, ‘We’re looking for this and it’s for Stranger Things, we would have tons more options, but it’s still a lot of work.”
• Season 3 will probably be the grossest season yet, according to the companion book Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down: The Official Behind-the-Scenes Companion by Gina McIntyre. It mentions the new episodes drawing on David Cronenberg’s 1975 horror film Shivers, about parasites that turn their hosts into sex-crazed maniacs. Summer of love, right?

And if all this isn’t enough to get you in the Stranger Things Day spirit, there’s all kind of fun stuff on the show’s Twitter:

Plus a reminder of the other reason this day is important:

Summer is coming.

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