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'Stranger Things 2' Creators: 'We Wanted To Raise The Stakes'

In the next chapter of the sci-fi Netflix series, out Friday, the show's central children begin to grow up. Brothers Matt and Ross Duffer discuss their instant cult classic.
Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) returns in the second season of <em>Stranger Things.</em>

Things are about to get even stranger in Hawkins, Ind.

That's the small town the Netflix series is set in. The second season of the instant cult classic set in the 1980s is released Friday, and it picks up about a year after the first adventure into the Upside Down, the defeat of the Demogorgon

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