This is a Code Red. I repeat, this is a Code Red. There are spoilers ahead, so make sure to watch all of Stranger Things 3 on Netflix before going any further.

Earth, America, America,

Indiana, Hawkins, a growing patriotic community

and a shining example of the American Dream.

It's Summer 1985 and Hawkins, Indiana.

The perms are tight, the shoulders are padded,

and a Starkcourt mall just opened its air-conditioned doors.

Families, friends, and of course teenagers can come together to shop, hang out, die, and enjoy. Starcourt is the biggest set we've ever seen on stranger things. It's built

inside a real mall near Atlanta that has two stories and almost 40 stores.

Star Court Mall has it all.

The early days of the the writer's room are always for us the most fun because you're just blue sky.

This is Ross Duffer.

He and his twin brother Matt are the co-creators of Stranger Things.

They're also executive producers, writers, directors. They're involved in pretty much every layer of the

show. When Ross says that they were blue-skying, he means that at this point in the process

they're gathering the big ideas for what could happen. Without any pesky details, no constraints, no clouds

in the sky.

It gets much more challenging after that once you've come with the cool ideas to try to make it all

work together and all these various storylines sort of weave in and out

together and then you just keep running into walls.

But in the first few weeks of sketching out the season, they're not worrying about running

into walls. They're just trying to see

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