X

New Stranger Things 3 trailer gets in the swim at the Hawkins pool

Hunky Billy rules the pool and the moms are there for it.

Gael Cooper
CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.
Expertise Breaking news, entertainment, lifestyle, travel, food, shopping and deals, product reviews, money and finance, video games, pets, history, books, technology history, generational studies. Credentials
  • Co-author of two Gen X pop-culture encyclopedia for Penguin Books. Won "Headline Writer of the Year"​ award for 2017, 2014 and 2013 from the American Copy Editors Society. Won first place in headline writing from the 2013 Society for Features Journalism.
Gael Cooper

Game of Thones is over, and it's time for another small-screen obsession: Stranger Things. The third season of the 1980s-set science fiction-horror show will explode onto Netflix on July 4, and a new video clip came out on Monday.

Billy Hargrove is a jerk to the main kids of Hawkins, Indiana, but to the ladies who lounge at the Hawkins Community Pool, especially Mike Wheeler's mom, Karen, he's hunk-a-delic. 

The teaser doesn't give away any plot details, but it does throw viewers right back into the '80s, when suntan lotion ruled over sunscreen, New Coke was a thing, and blue-and-pink layered eyeshadow was a fashion must.

Stranger Things returns to Netflix on July 4 for its third season.

Stranger Things Lego: Get close up to the Upside Down

See all photos