TV’S FUNNEST THRILLER
Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand.
Creatures crawl in search of blood. To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood.
And whosoever shall be found. Without the soul for getting down.
Must stand and face the hounds of hell. And rot inside a corpse’s shell.
The foulest stench is in the air. The funk of forty thousand years.
And grisly ghouls from every tomb. Are closing in to seal your doom.
And though you fight to stay alive. Your body starts to shiver.
For no mere mortal can resist ...
EVERYONE’S TIRED ON THE SET OF Stranger Things. I’m visiting on a Friday in May, and a months-long, effects-heavy Season 2 shoot is grinding toward its end. “It’s going slow,” says Millie Bobby Brown, the 13-year-old Emmy nominee who plays the supernatural character Eleven. “Last season it felt like we were rapid. Everything was fast,” she says. But now “the anticipation from the fans scares everyone. It makes the Duffers stressed. It makes us stressed.”
The Duffers are Matt and Ross, identical 33-year-old twins and the maestros of a show that was about the only thing everyone seemed able to agree on during the contentious summer of 2016. The Netflix series, whose eight-episode first season arrived with relatively little fanfare that July, was set in 1983 and told the story of a group of young Dungeons & Dragons–playing friends who encounter interdimensional forces. As they look for their missing friend Will (Noah Schnapp), they
