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The smash Netflix show of the summer, Stranger Things, will be returning for a second season in 2017, the streaming service announced on Wednesday.

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The smash Netflix show of the summer, Stranger Things, will be returning for a second season in 2017, the streaming service announced on Wednesday.

Actors from left to right, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the Netflix series,
Actors from left to right, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard participate in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss the Netflix series, "Stranger Things", at AOL Studios on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Creators Matt and Ross Duffer will return to helm the horror/sci-fi show, which in its first season centered on the disappearance of a young boy in a small town in Indiana in 1983.

The new season will take place in 1984, and will consist of nine episodes, up an episode from the first.

The new season was announced in a video almost as eerie as the show itself:

The Netflix show, starring Winona Ryder and a host of up-and-coming child actors, has generated the best buzz of any TV series this summer.

USA Today’s Robert Bianco gave the first season 2 1/2 out of four stars, noting, “for those seeking the kind of action/horror adventure Poltergeist provided, Stranger Things generally delivers in sufficiently large amounts.

“Whether it’s family-friendly is something parents must decide, but for guidance, sex and violence are more often hinted at than shown, gore is minimal, and the nightmare-inducement level is probably right around that Poltergeist mark.”

— USA Today

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A scene from "Stranger Things." (Curtis Baker/Netflix/TNS)
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