7 Ideas For Stranger Things Season 2

Season one ends with Eleven basically spontaneously combusting in order to destroy the monster . . . but is she really gone? While it initially appears so, Chief Hopper leaves some Eggos (her favorite) and Christmas cookies in a box at the edge of the forest. If she is still alive, season two could revolve around how she manages to survive, and what dimension she's in.

Toward the end of the first season, we meet Eleven's catatonic mother. Turns out that Eleven is born with powers because her mother had been volunteering for experiments while she was pregnant with her daughter. Though the creators specified season two would be a sequel, perhaps it could be a prequel about how Eleven's mom came to the Hawkins National Laboratory and what she goes through there.

Season one takes place in 1983, and if the boys are 12 then, they would be 45 now. Perhaps they've gone their separate ways over the years, but season two could feature their return to Hawkins, IN. Maybe they have a reunion, or maybe one of them has an inkling that the monster has resurfaced.

One of the biggest cliffhangers from the first season has to do with Will. He seems OK a month after the ordeal, but he's hiding the fact that he's coughing up monster-slugs. Are we really never going to see what happens to Will? Season two could pick up with that monster-slug going down the drain in the bathroom sink and into the town's water supply. That can't be good for the neighborhood, right?

Eleven kills the monster at the end of the first season and everything is all cool — or is it? How do we know that that insane monster doesn't have monster babies? Or a whole monster family? What if Eleven just destroyed one of many monsters lingering in the other dimension? Season two could feature one of them ripping a hole between worlds and invading the town.

OK, this is a stretch, but stay with me. Nancy spends some time in the other dimension too, and if Will is coughing up monster-slugs, what if it take a toll on her as well? (Granted Joyce and Jim also go, and no one but Will ends up with a weird monster tube down their throat, but let's ignore that for this theory.) Maybe the effects don't show up until years later, when she and Steve are the proud parents of a baby . . . a baby that may or may not have telekinetic powers and/or be half monster. This can't be the last we see of Steve!

Now that Hawkins National Laboratory has lost their biggest project, what will they do? There may be more kids out there like Eleven, and season two could be their search to find those with telekinetic powers. Granted, Dr. Brenner probably won't be back after that attack, but I doubt that program will end with his death.