Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers have said they would love to redo the show’s notorious Season 2 episode “The Lost Sister,” but the rumors that it was supposed to be a backdoor pilot for a spinoff are “bulls**t.”
The pair behind the hit Netflix show looked back on the highs and lows of their time in Hawkins, Indiana, during an interview with Josh Horowitz on Happy, Sad, Confused. While reflecting on the moments they’d love to take another crack at, both Matt and Ross Duffer gave an unsurprising answer for the Stranger Things episode they knew needed more love: Season 2, Episode 7.
“I think the mistake was this idea of a bottle episode,” Matt Duffer said. “I think if we had threaded it in more organically throughout the season, it would have worked. It wasn’t anybody’s fault except ours. I just would have approached how we integrated Kali differently.”
For those unaware, the seventh episode of Stranger Things’ nine-episode second season pulls Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) out of Hawkins and into the streets of Chicago, where she meets a group of outcasts and soon-to-be friends. Among the new crew is Kali, a girl who happens to share connections to Eleven’s past and also possesses supernatural abilities.
It’s a bottle episode that has lived in infamy since it first premiered in October 2017. While the Duffer Brothers now admit the episode should have been handled differently, they don’t think the idea should have been scrapped entirely.
