TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Just before the start of 2026, Netflix will release the final episode of the hit series “Stranger Things.”
While the show itself has a couple of connections to Alabama– from a hat one character wears in a recent episode to being filmed in Georgia– there have never been explicit connections to the state. That is, unless you count one film actress Natalia Dyer made that took its name from the home of the University of Alabama.
Dyer, who plays Nancy Wheeler on the show, is best known for “Stranger Things,” but she has played in a handful of movies the last few years, including “Tuscaloosa,” a movie released in 2019 and based on the 1994 novel by W. Glasgow Phillips…