Stranger Things' final season dropped Part 1 recently with some major game-changing reveals, and if early viewership is any sign of how it's doing, the show still has a fair number of fans. I consider myself one of them, as I wasted no time bingeing the latest batch of episodes with my Netflix subscription. It was good, but reminded me of a long-standing gripe I've had with the series as a proud resident of the state of Indiana.
While the show did earn some brownie points with me this season with an unexpected nod to The Bob & Tom Morning Show, the Duffer Brothers-led series has done very little, if anything, to capitalize on its setting of Hawkins, Indiana. The city is fictional, of course, but the state it's in is very real, and I can't help but knock some points off the show for the missed opportunities to better incorporate the state in its celebration of the 1980s.
