This summer has been a breakthrough for streaming.

There's no mystery about how millions of fans of Netflix's sci-fi drama “Stranger Things” spent their Memorial Day weekend.

After a pandemic-related absence of a year, Halloween Horror Nights are back with haunted houses based on the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Bride of Frankenstein” planned for Universal theme parks in California and Florida.

"Stranger Things" co-star David Harbour has something in common with "Saturday Night Live." They both came into the world in 1975. Harbour says, as a kid, he talked with his mom about the dream of hosting SNL one day. High on Harbour's SNL wishlist is sharing sketch with Kate McKinnon. "Those scenes that I watch, where she's like messing with some actor in a scene that I've watched for years.

Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia decorated as the Starcourt Mall from Stranger Things 3. (CNN) - The Georgia mall featured in the third season of the Netflix show "Stranger Things" is up for sale. Though the show painted the idea of a crowded shopping center, the once bustling suburban mall in Duluth, Georgia, is so empty that a decomposing body went unnoticed for two weeks in 2017. Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District Executive Director Joe Allen confirmed the sale to The Gwinnett Daily Post. However, Moonbeam only owns the largest chunk of Gwinnett Place Mall.

And we're hoping they'll all be answered in the fourth season of Netflix's hit series "Stranger Things." The streaming service announced the show's return Monday, saying the Duffer Brothers, the creators of the series, have also signed on "to a multi-year film and series overall deal." "We can't wait to see what the Duffer Brothers have in store when they step outside the world of The Upside Down." On the show's fourth season, the only clue the video announcement offers is this: "We are no longer in Hawkins." "Stranger Things" has earned 30 Emmy nominations and won six Emmys.

Legions of fans are traipsing to a tiny Georgia town, where the hit Neflix series "Stranger Things" stages its battle against the Upside Down. The nostalgic 1980s series, a mixture of science fiction and Stephen King's homespun horror, debuted three seasons ago. In Jackson, Georgia, Lucy Lu's Coffee Shop offers a special "Stranger Things" menu, containing concoctions such as "011," cinnamon coffee with maple syrup, topped with crumbled Eggos. The fever to see all things related to the filming of "Stranger Things" even encompasses road trips. RELATED STORIESHow 'Stranger Things' Is Fueling '80s NostalgiaCoke Is Bringing Back the Most Hated Drink in History for 'Stranger Things'The Next 'Stranger Things'?

Netflix via CNN(CNN) - Netflix has promised to curb depictions of smoking in new programs following a report that pointed a finger at its hit series "Stranger Things," whose first two seasons featured tobacco in every episode. The company's policy on newly commissioned programs will not directly affect existing shows like "Stranger Things." The Netflix shows depicted smoking more often than broadcast shows. The report counted a jump in the number of tobacco depictions from the first season of "Stranger Things" to the second -- from 182 to 262. Overall, cigarettes accounted for nearly three-quarters of tobacco depictions in these shows, whereas e-cigarettes hardly appeared at all.

(CNN) - "Stranger Things" will gain its independence from the Upside Down when the third season debuts July 4. But not much of this matters if no one remembers how things left off last season. She also takes a liking to frozen waffles and, eventually by the start of Season 2, Hawkins Chief of Police Jim Hopper (David Harbour). But things are much worse in Season 2, which picks up a year after that finale. Well I was born in a small town ...