stranger things season 2
Stranger
Things is an American science fiction-horror
web television
series created, written, directed and co-executive produced by the Duffer Brothers,
as well as co-executive produced by Shawn Levy
and Dan Cohen. The first season, released in July 2016, stars Winona Ryder,
David Harbour,
Finn Wolfhard,
Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo,
Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer,
Charlie Heaton,
Cara Buono
and Matthew Modine, with Noah Schnapp
and Joe Keery
in recurring roles. For the second season, Schnapp and Keery were promoted to
series regulars, along with the additions of Sadie Sink,
Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin
and Paul Reiser.
Set in the fictional town of
Hawkins, Indiana
in the 1980s, the first season focuses on the investigation into the
disappearance of a young boy amid supernatural events occurring around the town
including the appearance of a girl with psychokinetic
abilities who helps the missing boy's friends in their own search. The second
season, titled Stranger Things 2, is set a year after the first, and
deals with attempts of the characters to return to normal and consequences that
linger from the first season.
The
Duffer Brothers developed the series as a mix of investigative drama alongside
supernatural elements with childlike sensibilities, establishing its time frame
in the 1980s and creating a homage to pop culture of
that decade.
The first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016.
It received critical acclaim for its characterization, pacing, atmosphere,
acting, soundtrack, directing, writing, and homages to 1980s genre
films. The series has received several industry nominations and
awards, including winning the Screen Actors
Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
in 2016, and receiving eighteen nominations for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards,
including Outstanding Drama Series.
On August 31, 2016, Netflix renewed the series for a second season of nine
episodes, which was released on October 27, 2017. The Duffer Brothers have
confirmed that the series will continue with a third season, pursuing a desire
to conclude Stranger Things with a fourth or fifth season.
The Crown season
two.
Season two of Netflix’s Golden Globe-winning big budget royal series The Crown will
hit the small screen globally on Friday December 8. Here’s what you need to
know about the highly anticipated second season, starring Claire Foy as Queen
Elizabeth and Matt Smith as Prince Philip.
Season two of The Crown finds Queen
Elizabeth struggling to keep the British monarchy together in the turbulent
1960s. “I’ve been Queen barely 10 years. And in that time, I’ve had three Prime
Ministers. Not one has lasted the course,” she says in the trailer, released
earlier this month.
The trailer, which has already received nearly one
million YouTube views, shows the Queen being warned about her husband, Prince
Philip, and his apparent wandering eye: “You married a wild spirit. Trying to
tame them is no use,” she is told. Another scene shows Elizabeth II scolding
her husband for his “restlessness.” “It has to be a thing from the past,” she
adds. “The monarchy is too fragile. You keep telling me yourself. One more
scandal, one more national embarrassment and it will all be over.”
Meanwhile, the Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret (played
by Vanessa Kirby), finds a new love interest in the young bohemian photographer
Antony Armstrong-Jones, also known as Lord Snowdon. “She goes head first into a
completely new, exciting, dangerous, volatile, dysfunctional relationship,”
Kirby told Vanity Fair when discussing her character last year.
Netflix has revealed that the season kicks off with
soldiers in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt and
ends with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s downfall after a devastating
scandal.
adapted from the telegraph 17/ Nov/2017
