Netflix Releases Trailer for Stranger Things Tales from 85 Season 2

Netflix has released the first official trailer for the second season of its animated spinoff series, Stranger Things Tales from 85, revealing a new paranormal mystery centered around Valentine's Day in Hawkins. The trailer, which debuted on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, sets the season's plot in motion as the young Hawkins Investigators Club confronts ghostly apparitions and a swarm of strange creatures threatening their town.

The second season picks up immediately after the events of the first season finale. As the crew, including characters voiced by Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Luca Diaz, and Odessa Azion, prepares for Valentine's Day festivities, they discover mysterious, glowing flowers appearing across Hawkins. According to the show's logline, the team must uncover the truth behind these apparitions and the creatures causing chaos before a new gate to the Upside Down is ripped open. Showrunner Eric Robles explained that the flowers are central to the new threat. "We think that the kids are going back to their normal lives, but we start to discover that these flowers are popping up all over Hawkins," Robles said. He added that characters Nikki and Max are initially "scheming to...