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“You want us to foster a kid?” Mike finally asks, disbelieving. Will is half convinced that El will laugh in their faces, clearing up the misunderstanding with a, “No, silly. I want you to water my plants.”
“It doesn’t have to be forever,” El says. “Just until I can find another home for him. I can’t stand him living in the shelter anymore. Not right now. He needs emotional support. And don’t lie to me— I know you two have been wanting kids. This can be a trial run.”
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Will and Mike are tasked with fostering an emotionally distant, judgmental, sassy twelve-year-old boy from El’s shelter. As hard as they try to win his heart, they seem to be making no progress. After all, how could two strangers earn the trust of a boy who’s been hurt time and time again?
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17 Feb 2026
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In the Summer of 85, Joyce Byers' magnets keeping falling off her fridge. Her son, Jonathan, has a new job at the Hawkins Post that he needs to keep their family afloat while her other son, Will, seems to have trouble sleeping through the night.
At the Hawkins Community Pool, Erica Sinclair is starting to notice that something is a little different about the lifeguard.
When Dustin Henderson hears a mysterious message, he enlists the help of Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Max Mayfield and El Hopper to crack it.
Nancy Wheeler senses that there is something deeply wrong in Hawkins once again when her friend at the post starts acting unusual.
Dr. Owens' turns on the power to a brand new Hawkins Lab.
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17 Feb 2026
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In the summer of 1989, the Byers family moves to Montauk, cutting short Mike and Will's last summer together before college. Certain he'll never see his friend again, Will confesses his love on their last night together, rocking Mike's world entirely. As the tear-filled goodbyes draw to a close, however, Mike is suddenly offered the unexpected opportunity to travel with the Byers family and help them move.
They have five days out of state together to address Will's confession, learn to communicate, and maybe, just maybe, say a few things they should have said all along.
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14 Feb 2026
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The Upside Down isn't the only alternate universe the party has to worry about it seems. When something inexplainable happens during a game of D&D, Will is replaced by... Will? Will the Wise appears before everyone, confused on why his friends are wearing such strange garbs and what dungeon he has stumbled into. Meanwhile, Will finds himself surrounded by fantastical versions of his friends clad in armor and robes somewhere far, far from Hawkins. The party now has a new mission to figure out how to get their Wills switched back around, and Mike needs to figure out what this feeling in his chest is all about.
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If Will had a nickel every time he was transported into an alternate reality that had some similarities to his normal reality, he'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice, right?
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14 Feb 2026
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"Dustin?!" Steve exclaims, startling the younger boy who promptly falls onto the ground.
"Steve?! What the hell are you doing here?!" Dustin blinks hard as if his own eyes are betraying him.
"I could ask you the same thing!!" Steve replies.
"I was just.." Dustin starts while Steve's eyes drift up to the window above their heads lined with purple curtains.
"Youre here to see Jane!" Steve gasps.Or: Steve goes to sneak into Jonathan's room when he finds Dustin trying to sneak into El's.
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14 Feb 2026