A surprising outdoor entertainment highlight for Southern California in 2020 was the
Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience. Created by Netflix in conjunction with event discovery platform Fever, the experience celebrated all three seasons of
Stranger Things. SYFY WIRE visited the event during its opening days in 2020, and found it to be a truly faithful, live stage show that gave off plenty of SDCC-style vibes. Despite various lockdowns and COVID surges, the drive-in remained a safe event for more than seven months, letting audiences drive into “Hawkins, Indiana” within the enclosed safety of their cars while an in-world show played out before them and via their car speakers.