 The wait is finally over as Netflix has dropped the long-awaited official trailer for Stranger Things Season 3 and it's flipping its fans upside down, becoming the most watched trailer on the Netflix YouTube channel in just over three days. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Matt Rogers. We went the entire year of 2018 without a season of the 1980s nostalgic Netflix original and we still have yet a few more months to wait with an official premiere date set for July 4th 2019. The immediate vibes we get from the new trailer is that there's a significant time jump. The creators of the show The Duffer Brothers have said recently that this will be the case and hearing lines such as we're not kids anymore and plus a lot of the stars having physically grown up a lot since we last saw them. The Duffer Brothers have this to say on the topic. Quote, our kids are aging. We can only write and produce the show so fast. They're going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting season 3. It provides certain challenges. You can't start right after season 2 ended. It forces you to do a time jump. But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show. It forces the show to evolve and change because the kids are changing. In regards to the episodes themselves, it has been confirmed that there will be 8 this time round which is what the original season had followed by season 2's 9 episodes. What you're seeing now are the cryptic episode titles that have already been confirmed. Speaking of cryptic, we got a teaser trailer back in July of last year, a vaporwave style commercial for Starcourt Mall. Giving not much away except that something must be going down in this mall or at least a popular hangout for the gang. How many children are you friends with? In regards to some newer characters, Matt Duffer had this to say. Quote, Billy was supposed to have a bigger role. We ended up having so many characters. It ended up in a way more teed up for season 3 than anything. There was a whole teen supernatural storyline that just got booted because it was just too cluttered, you know? A lot of that's just getting kicked into season 3. The Duffer brothers have said it's set to be a darker and scarier look at Hawkins. Apparently taking inspiration from John Carpenter's The Thing. Which is fitting for the mega-demogorgon we see at the end of the trailer. The trailer itself isn't too telling of the events of the final season, apart from the kids adapting to a more teenage lifestyle, whilst of course also saving the world. Season 3 is said to be the second to last season of the show, as the creators have always said that it feels like a four-season thing, which should be then left alone. If you ask me, I would have been happy with the first season standing on its own. However, I do admit that I was a fan of the latter half of season 2. What are you most looking forward to in the third season? I'll be chatting with you guys in the comments. But until next time, this is Matt Rogers, and that is all.