Generally, I can't watch most shows or films set in the 80s because they get so many things wrong or add in things from a later date. The things that almost eve

Generally, I can't watch most shows or films set in the 80s because they get so many things wrong or add in things from a later date. The things that almost every show or movie set in that time get wrong is how bad the economy was for anyone that wasn't in finance or adjacent industries. If you were a factory worker in Indiana in the 80s then you likely have been laid off half the time and worked odd jobs (Same with folks anywhere else in the midwest and great plains). Stranger Things implies this with Winona Ryder's character in parts of season 1 and 2 but mostly they seem to hide the grueling poverty of the 80s under the happy face side of things (I guess the mundane horrors of capitalism is too much for some writers).