Stranger Issues 4, the newest season of the hit present, simply grew to become the second Netflix present ever to surpass a billion hours considered. For the reason that first installment of the season dropped on Could twenty seventh, viewers have spent a cumulative 1.15 billion hours watching the season’s 9 episodes, together with 301 million hours simply this previous weekend. That makes Stranger Issues 4 the second most-watched Netflix season ever, after Squid Sport in 2021. It was in Netflix’s Prime 10 in 93 completely different international locations this weekend, the corporate says. The present is so well-liked proper now that it’s boosting the older seasons, too: all 4 Stranger Issues seasons have been in Netflix’s six most-watched exhibits over the weekend, with solely The Umbrella Academy in a position to sustain.
Netflix’s viewership measurement system is notoriously bizarre and complicated. The service tracks how a lot a present is considered within the first 28 days after its launch, however these numbers differ broadly primarily based on how the episodes are launched, how lengthy they’re, and a bunch of different components.
If something, you could possibly argue that Stranger Issues’ success simply underscores how big Squid Sport actually was: Stranger Issues 4 is hours longer than Squid Sport and had a months-long advertising and marketing technique behind it, and Squid Sport nonetheless trumped it with 1.65 billion hours considered. Stranger Issues may nonetheless catch it, although; Netflix’s numbers will not rely the primary batch of episodes, however the newest two nonetheless have just a few weeks to choose up viewer hours. These episodes are lengthy, too — like, long-movie lengthy — which supplies the present a good higher shot on the prime spot. (Like I mentioned, the measurement is complicated.)
So that you shouldn’t learn an excessive amount of into the specifics apart from to say with nice confidence that the present season of Stranger Issues could be very well-liked. It’s additionally excellent, and units the present up for an enormous conclusion subsequent season. And it’s the sort of enduring franchise that Netflix has been determined to construct lately, so you must count on the corporate to maintain pulling out all of the stops to make folks care about what occurs in Hawkins, Indiana.
So you’ll be able to solely assume that Stranger Issues 5 goes to be big.