“Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” Season 2 Trailer Unleashes a Ghostly Hawkins Threat

The Hawkins Investigators Club searches the woods in Netflix’s official Season 2 artwork.

“Stranger Things: Tales From ’85” Season 2 is sending the Hawkins Investigators Club back into the woods with a mystery that looks beautiful before it turns dangerous. Netflix released the official trailer Tuesday, August 25, and set the animated series’ return for September 17.

The new season begins after the first finale, with Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Max and Nikki trying to resume familiar routines. Arcade games, school life and preparations for Valentine’s Day quickly lose ground to strange flowers appearing across Hawkins. Their color hides a supernatural connection, and Nikki and Max’s plan to sell them threatens to spread the problem before the group understands it.

Netflix’s official synopsis adds ghostly apparitions and a swarm of hate sprites to the threat. The Hawkins Investigators Club must determine what is happening before another gate to the Upside Down can open. Showrunner Eric Robles also points toward new territory below the town, including a mine the franchise has not explored before.

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The verified Netflix trailer above is embedded at full content width so readers can judge the footage directly. It shows the group entering a ruined cabin, investigating glowing fields and confronting enormous ghostlike forms. The animation keeps the franchise’s winter atmosphere while allowing the danger to become more exaggerated and visually elastic than live action easily permits.

PowerPage’s look at FX’s “The Drop” trailer followed another series using an established world to open a new chapter. “Tales From ’85” takes the opposite route through animation, returning to familiar characters and a tightly defined point in the timeline. The test for Season 2 is whether a recognizable Hawkins mystery can still surprise viewers after the first animated adventure.