Stranger Things 4 Quietly Fixed One Critical Byers Family Mistake

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The Stranger Things season 4 finale secretly resolved an issue with the Byers family leaving Hawkins. The end of season 3 saw Joyce, Will, Jonathan, and Eleven pack up their house in Hawkins as they left the trauma and supernatural oddities of their home. It was soon revealed that the Byers family moved all the way out of California to keep Eleven safe, but the only positive change in their new home seemed to be Jonathan’s friendship with the new Stranger Things character Argyle.

Despite the Byers’ new home in California being a big change in the first few episodes of Stranger Things season 4, the location was completely left behind once Eleven was taken to the Nina Project Lab in Nevada. The “California gang” spent the majority of their time in Stranger Things season 4 on the road, with the characters finally reaching Hawkins in the last few moments of the season finale. Of course, the Hawkins that the Byers family returns to is not the Hawkins that they left, as the town has been devastated by Vecna’s Upside Down takeover.

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While it’s not confirmed in the episode, the Stranger Things season 4 finale implies that the Byers family has officially moved back to Hawkins for season 5. Alongside the entire family reuniting there at Hopper’s cabin, the Stranger Things creators have teased that almost all of season 5 will take place in Hawkins, with the character groups largely repeating those from the first season. Rather than making the mistake of continuing to separate them from the larger supernatural story by keeping the Byers family in California, the Stranger Things season 4 ending made the right choice by quietly revealing that Joyce, Will, Jonathan,