“Stranger Things” star David Harbour has finally allowed Season 2 details to slip, including who “Goonies” alum Sean Astin will be playing.
“We have Sean Astin… he’s Winona’s new boyfriend–much to the chagrin to the Chief of Police,” Harbour said during a Fan2Sea Comic Con panel, via Hollywood Life.
We previously knew that Astin would play a former classmate of both Hopper and Joyce (Ryder), but this is the first time we know the nature of his relationship with latter.
He also said that the new season will feature a time jump. “It’s a year later in the story, so there are several things that happened last year, like Will has come back,” he said.”There are certain people in the town that know what happened, and then certain people that don’t know what happened. So there’s a lot of fall out with who knows what.”
But the biggest question: Will there be justice for Barb, Nancy’s friend who was killed in the Upside Down early in the season and then basically forgotten?
“The question and the feelings that Nancy has that no one ever cares about her friend Barb are very much present in the beginning of the season,” Harbour said.
Most of the main cast will be returning for Season 2, with Harbour and Ryder being joined by Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas) and Millie Bobby Brown, who plays the specially gifted Eleven.
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OUTLANDER In the Season 2 finale, after a season of being separated by time, Claire discovered that Jamie survived the Battle of Colluden, meaning she could travel through the stones to be with him again.
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THE WALKING DEAD Fans of cable's most popular show were kept guessing (sometimes angrily and resentfully) for months on this one question: "Who did Negan kill?"
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JANE THE VIRGIN It was the moment that kept the show's title true through an excruciating summer hiatus: Did Michael live or die after being shot on his and Jane's wedding night?
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THE FLASH When Barry decided to go back in time and save his mother from the Reverse-Flash, he created an alternate timeline called Flashpoint, and he's still trying to repair all the damage he did.
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YOU'RE THE WORST The epic love story between Jimmy and Gretchen took yet another dramatic but oh-so-in-character turn when he proposed to her, then promptly got scared and left her stranded in the middle of the night on a mountaintop.
FX
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK A prison-wide riot left at least one life in jeopardy and the potential for danger high: Will Daya shoot the gun at abusive prison guard Humphrey?
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THE BLACKLIST NBC's CIA spy thriller did the unthinkable in the middle of its third season: It killed off its leading lady, Elizabeth Keen (played by Megan Boone) right before a long hiatus. It was several weeks before the show revealed she had just faked her own death.
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ARROW Rather than putting it in a season finale or right before a long hiatus, "Arrow" presented its big cliffhanger -- who's in the grave? -- in its Season 5 premiere, and then played the mystery out via flashbacks throughout the season.
The CW
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER The twisty-turny Shondaland drama took it to the next level with #UndertheSheet, a season-long mystery that kept hidden the identity of a series regular who had been killed off.
ABC
STRANGER THINGS After a season-long search, the "Stranger Things" kids managed to find their missing friend Will and rescue him from the Upside Down, but in the final moments of the finale, a quick burst of a vision suggests the mystery is far from over.
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