Stranger Issues 4, the newest season of the hit display, simply become the second one Netflix display ever to surpass 1000000000 hours seen. Because the first installment of the season dropped on Would possibly twenty seventh, audience have spent a cumulative 1.15 billion hours staring at the season’s 9 episodes, together with 301 million hours simply this previous weekend. That makes Stranger Issues 4 the second one most-watched Netflix season ever, after Squid Recreation in 2021. It used to be in Netflix’s Best 10 in 93 other international locations this weekend, the corporate says. The display is so in style at the moment that it’s boosting the older seasons, too: all 4 Stranger Issues seasons had been in Netflix’s six most-watched presentations over the weekend, with simplest The Umbrella Academy ready to take care of.

Netflix’s viewership size gadget is notoriously bizarre and complicated. The carrier tracks how a lot a display is seen within the first 28 days after its unencumber, however the ones numbers range broadly in accordance with how the episodes are launched, how lengthy they’re, and a host of different components.

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If anything else, it is advisable to argue that Stranger Issues’ good fortune simply underscores how large Squid Recreation in point of fact used to be: Stranger Issues 4 is hours longer than Squid Recreation and had a months-long business plan at the back of it, and Squid Recreation nonetheless trumped it with 1.65 billion hours seen. Stranger Issues may just nonetheless catch it, even though; Netflix’s numbers will now not depend the primary batch of episodes, however the newest two nonetheless have a couple of weeks to pick out up viewer hours. The ones episodes are lengthy, too — like, long-movie lengthy — which provides the display a good higher shot on the best spot. (Like I mentioned, the size is complicated.)

So that you shouldn’t learn an excessive amount of into the specifics rather than to mention with nice self assurance that the present season of Stranger Issues could be very in style. It’s additionally superb, and units the display up for an enormous conclusion subsequent season. And it’s the type of enduring franchise that Netflix has been determined to construct lately, so that you must be expecting the corporate to stay pulling out the entire stops to make other people care about what occurs in Hawkins, Indiana.

So you’ll simplest think that Stranger Issues 5 goes to be large.