Stranger Things season 4 has officially entered the Netflix billionaire club.
Following the release of the final two episodes of Season 4 on July 1, the latest entry in the Duffer Brothers' acclaimed sci-fi show has become the biggest English-language Netflix series of all time and the first to accumulate more than 100,000 visits. billion hours of viewing in its first 28 days of release.
According to the streamer's most recent popularity rankings (opens in a new tab), Stranger Things Season 4 drew nearly twice as many viewers as Netflix's second most popular English-language series, Bridgerton Season 2 (which generated 656 million viewing hours in its first month), and has so far logged around half a billion more viewing hours than Stranger Things season 3 managed in the same period.
Stranger Things season 4 now ranks second to Squid Game on the streamer's list of most popular TV series, period, and while episodes 1-7 no longer count towards the show's running total, episodes 8 and 9 still have the power to dethrone Hwang Dong. -Hyuk's dystopian survival drama continues to attract viewers.
At the time of this writing, Stranger Things season 4 has racked up 1150 billion hours of viewing in its first month, but Squid Game has hit an even more staggering 1650 billion (for perspective, that means audiences spent over 182 cumulative years watching the series). show in its first four weeks of release).
Can Stranger Things Really Dethrone Squid Game? (*4*)
As mentioned, Stranger Things Season 2 Volume 4 will continue to increase total viewing numbers from the first month of the season until it has passed its 28-day release window on July 28. To outshine Squid Game, episodes 8 and 9 will need to generate almost exactly 500 million more hours of viewing in just over four weeks.
It is certainly a difficult task for the Hawkins gang, but not impossible. Stranger Things Season 2 Volume 4 has time on its side; episodes 8 and 9 offer a combined running time of around four hours, which means that by our fan count, around 125 million more people will have to tune in, or re-watch, the season finale (already know what to do, Eddie Munson fans).
Whether or not Stranger Things season 4 accomplishes the feat, for what it's worth, this writer is banking on Squid Game's enduring dominance - the success of the latest entry in Duffer Brothers' beloved sci-fi series will be a breather. welcome to Netflix, which has endured a turbulent 2022 amid subscriber losses and massive show cancellations.
Good viewership numbers for season 4 also bode well for Stranger Things season 5, which will mark the show's final main outing. Rumors have suggested that the Stranger Things universe may continue in future feature films and spin-off shows, but no upcoming projects have been confirmed yet.