‘Stranger Things’ Announces Season 3 Premiere Date With Creepy New Year’s Eve Countdown [Video]

Just as the clock struck midnight on January 1, Stranger Things made a big announcement on its Twitter account, telling fans that the Netflix series would return on July 4, 2019. The tweet came with another trailer for Stranger Things 3.

The trailer takes us back to New Years’ Eve 1985, specifically Dick Clark’s iconic New Year’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast. Mysterious interferences interrupt the broadcast, sending static onto the screen along with strange messages like “when blue and yellow meet in the west.”

In addition to showing the new teaser, Netflix posted an image on the official Stranger Things Twitter account to confirm the July 4th release date. A poster featuring July 4th fireworks, the show’s heroes, and the tagline “one summer can change everything.”

At this point, not much is known about the plot of the upcoming eight-episode season. In December, the streaming service revealed the season’s episode titles,

The episode titles are as follows:

1. “Suzie, Do You Copy?”
2. “The Mall Rats”
3. “The Case of the Missing Lifeguard”
4. “The Sauna Test”
5. “The Source”
6. “The Birthday”
7. “The Bite”
8. “The Battle of Starcourt”