Just after the stroke of midnight on the East Coast Tuesday, Netflix released the first good news of 2019: the long-awaited premiere date for “Stranger Things 3.”The streamer took advantage of the New Year’s Eve timing by dropping the sci-fi series’ Season 3 launch date in a teaser video, just after the ball dropped Et. The short clip — broadcast by a local channel in the fictional Hawkins, Indiana, and sponsored by the Starcourt Mall — features footage of “ Dick Clark ’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve: 1985.”As Clark begins to count down to the New Year in the Big Apple, the screen beings to scramble with code and bizarre text and then, finally, it’s revealed we are definitely heading back into the Upside Down on July 4, 2019 — 20 months after the show’s second season launched on Netflix in October 2017.Also Read: ' Stranger Things ': Sadie Sink Is the Only Kid