Speaking with IGN, Matt and Ross Duffer revealed how Barb and Dr. Brenner — both of whom appeared to have died in Stranger Things Season 1 — will play into Season 2 when it premieres on Netflix.
Despite dying at the beginning of the third episode, Nancy Wheeler’s best friend Barb (Shannon Purser) became a fan favorite.
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— Your friend, Gus (@_anghost) August 12, 2016
But Barb won’t be back. “I can’t see it happening,” Matt said. “But Barb will not be forgotten. We’ll make sure there’s some justice for Barb. People get very frustrated, understandably, that the town doesn’t seem to be really dealing with Barb. That stuff is all happening. We’re just not spending any screen time on it… part of what we want to do with hypothetical Season 2 is to explore the repercussions of everything that happened.”
But while Barb is toast, Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine), the head of the secretive and villainous Hawkins Laboratory psychic experiments, will return. The monster pounces on him during the climax of Stranger Things Season 1, but we never see the Cronenberg-looking bastard getting his guts ripped out.
“I would say that if we were going to kill Brenner… as an audience member watching the show, if that was his death, that would be very unsatisfying to me – when the monster jumps on him and we cut away,” Matt Duffer told IGN. “He would deserve much more than that as an ending. So yes, there’s a possibility of seeing him again.”
It’s too bad for Barb, but at least we have Dr. Brenner returning with robot spider legs to look forward to in Stranger Things Season 2 on Netflix.
