Netflix’s “Stranger Things is still the number one water cooler discussion piece even more than a week after its release. Honestly, it’s for good reason. The show is wickedly smart, highly entertaining, and provides just enough answers to have great discussions while still leaving enough mysteries for people to say, “We just don’t know.”

Most people that I know ended up binging the series once they watched the first episode. I know I did the same, watching it all over the course of a couple of days, soaking in the story of the missing boy Will Byers and how his friends and the community reacted in their own unique ways. While the first season ended in a relatively satisfying way, it opened the doors to several new questions that many of us are antsy about getting answered.

The Duffer Brothers have been on a serious press spree answering questions left and right now that the show is out and of course they’re being inundated with questions about a second season, which they have no problem talking about, although they’re not giving away any specific details. They’re more like guidelines.

Matt Duffer tells IGN, “Now, we don’t answer all the questions by the end of the season – there are definitely some dangling threads. The hope is that it feels satisfying but that we left room and that if people respond to it we can go back into this world. But if we do get to go back, it’s not a second season as much as a sequel.”

The duo don’t plan on entering a new season unplanned. They’ve got a vast amount of research, material, and blueprints to draw from in order to keep the series feeling like it continued in a way that makes sense.

Ross explains to Variety:

There’s a lot there we don’t know or understand. Even with the Upside Down, we have a 30-page document that is pretty intricate in terms of what it all means, and where this monster actually came from, and why aren’t there more monsters — we have all this stuff that we just didn’t have time for, or we didn’t feel like we needed to get into in season one, because of the main tension of Will. We have that whole other world that we haven’t fully explored in this season, and that was very purposeful.

We leave these dangling threads at the end. If people respond to this show and we get to continue this story — we had those initial discussions of where we might go with it. If there was going to be a season two, we would reveal more of that 30 page document, but we’d still want to keep it from the point of view of our original characters.

But does all this even matter if we haven’t yet heard confirmation regarding a second season? Well, show executive producer Shawn Levy explains that the love the show has received is allowing speculation for not just one more season but several.

We definitely are hopeful to go several more seasons. And the plan is to continue with this set of characters while introducing a few critical key new ones next season. So I’ll just say that a lot of the big mysteries get answered at the end of Season 1, but we are very much kind of unearthing new problems and questions that merit future stories and future investigation in the most enjoyable way. So we are in love with our cast and our characters.

Things end up being resolved to some extent at the end of Season 1, but not entirely. And that’s why we’re so hopeful we get another few seasons to live with these people a little longer.