NEW YORK, April 23 (UPI) -- The new animated adventure, Stranger Things: Tales From '85, revisits the beloved characters of Netflix's five-season, live-action, sci-fi series, Stranger Things, at a stage of their lives when they don't have the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Executive produced by Matt and Ross Duffer, and Shawn Levy, the show premieres on Thursday.
Set in 1985 between the events of Seasons 2 and 3 of the flagship series, it follows a group of tween friends as they try to figure out the connection between the monsters in their Indiana town and a shadowy government lab.
"The Duffer brothers were really excited about just going back to the time where the kids were just kids. They weren't worrying about saving the world. They were just worried about saving Hawkins," show-runner Eric Robles told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"There's something kind of just nice and clean about that and one of the things that we talk about is kids riding bikes, solving mysteries with walkie-talkies and flashlights and that's as simple as we can start with and knowing that the kids are at that age where everything is still new. Everything's still curious. They're still trying to make sense of this world."
