David Harbour Teases Chief Hopper’s Role in ‘Stranger Things’ Season 2

David Harbour is giving the fans a preview of what they can expect to see out of his character, Chief Hopper, on the upcoming season of Stranger Things. During the San Diego Comic-Con Stranger Things panel, the 42-year-old revealed that his character is going to go through a drastically different arc than Season 1 of the wildly popular Netflix series.

“In Season 2, it’s a year later and you can’t do the same thing,” he said. “One of the interesting things is that there is a psychology that comes with a heroic action. You’re going to see a wildly different arc this time, but it’s just as good. It all starts with leaving Eggos out in the woods.”

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While he didn’t spill on any specific plot details, Harbour did mention that his character is going to get be heavily involved in the action.

“Hopper gets to do some thrilling and even sexy things in Season 2,” he said.

As for Season 2, Harbour says that the direction that the showrunners, Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, are taking the story could polarize some viewers.

“In general, I think people will be pretty excited about it, but I do think some people will expect something and not get it,” he said during an interview with TVLine. “Some people may want the same thing [as Season 1], but we’re not going to give them that. Literally, upon reading the first five minutes of the first script, I realized we opened up the world in an entirely new way. And these characters can go in an entirely new direction and have new arcs.”

At SDCC 2017, Harbour also dished on the future of Stranger Things. He says that the Duffer brothers aren’t looking to perpetuate story lines like many shows have done in the past. Rather, there will be a finite conclusion to the series.

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“We don’t have an open-ended thing like The Walking Dead,” he said. “There is an end to all these characters… We’re going to give you something fun and then we’re going to get out before we’ve worn out our welcome. We have a specific story that we’re going to tell.”

The first season of Stranger Things starred Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Natalia Dyer, Cara Buono, Charlie Heaton and Matthew Modine.

The second season will feature Sadie Sink as Max, a tough and confident girl whose appearance, behavior and pursuits seem more typical of boys than of girls in this era, and Power Rangers star Dacre Montgomery as Billy, Max’s hyper-confident and edgy older step-brother.

Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (Wayward Pines, Hidden) serve as writer, directors and co-showrunners of the series. They are executive producers, along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen via their 21 Laps entertainment banner (The Spectacular Now, Night At The Museum, Real Steel, Date Night). Shawn Levy also serves as director.

The second season of the Emmy-nominated sci-fi series will debut all nine episodes on October 27, 2017.