when did season 1 and 2 of stranger things come out
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title: Stranger Things text: Stranger Things Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, and directed by the Duffer Brothers and released on Netflix. The Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, and Dan Cohen serve as executive producers. The first season 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 made series regulars, along with the additions of Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, and Paul Reiser; Maya Hawke joined the title: Stranger Things text: 12. The first season consisted of eight one-hour-long episodes which were released worldwide on Netflix on July 15, 2016, in Ultra HD 4K. The second season, consisting of nine episodes, was released on October 27, 2017 in HDR. A teaser for the second season, which also announced the release date, aired during Super Bowl LI. The third season will once again consist of eight episodes, and is set to be released in 2019. Regarding the lengthy hiatus between the second and third seasons, Netflix programming executive Cindy Holland noted "[the Duffer Brothers and Shawn Levy] understand the stakes are high. title: Stranger Things text: viewing by detecting a program's sound. According to Symphony, within the first 35 days of release, "Stranger Things" averaged ratings around 14.07 million adults between the ages 18–49 in the United States. This made it the third most-watched season of Netflix original content in the U.S. at the time behind the first season of "Fuller House" and fourth season of "Orange Is the New Black". In a September 2016 analysis, Netflix found that "Stranger Things" "hooked" viewers by the second episode of the first season, indicating that the second episode was "the first installment that led at least 70 percent title: Stranger Things text: Street" and "Jaws", in order to establish the tone of the series. With the critical success of the first season after its release in July 2016, speculation on a possible second season was raised. The Duffer Brothers initially intended for "Stranger Things" to either be a standalone miniseries or an anthology series. They also considered the possibility of setting a potential second season (which they referred to as a "sequel") in the early 1990s and featuring an older version of the characters, along with all new characters, who are drawn back to Hawkins after supernatural events begin occurring again. However, title: Stranger Things text: sophomore season balances moments of humor and a nostalgic sweetness against a growing horror that's all the more effective thanks to the show's full-bodied characters and evocative tone." On Metacritic, the second season has a normalized score of 78 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The second season has also been recognized by "Parrot Analytics" as the most in-demand digital original series of the world in 2017 and is included in the 2019 edition of "Guinness World Records". Shortly after its release, "Stranger Things" gained a dedicated fanbase. One area of focus from these fans