The latest season of Netflix Inc’s Stranger Things has pushed total viewership for the series to more than 1.15 billion hours, the streaming service said on Tuesday.
The science-fiction drama starring Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown has become the most popular English-language series on Netflix. The only other Netflix show to cross 1 billion viewing hours is South Korean drama Squid Game.Stranger Things also hit #1 on Netflix’s Top 10 lists in 91 countries, a first for an English-language TV series, the company said.
The show’s fourth season concluded with the final two episodes released last week, briefly crashing the Netflix app as fans rushed to view it. The series debuted in 2016.Meanwhile, the fourth season has been receiving positive reviews from the audience and critics alike. Indianexpress.com’s Mimansa Shekhar in her review wrote, “Stranger Things 4 is obviously the biggest season of the show till date. With a huge canvas on a grand scale, spread across locations and some incredible visual effects, it doesn’t let you down. The makers don’t deviate from its core horror element. A story about friendships, love, longing, reunions, finding your strength and coming of age has once again been dealt with near perfection by its writers. You’ll feel for every character, cheer for your favourites, shed tears for some too.”
The latest season of Netflix’s Stranger Things has pushed total viewership for the series to more than 1.15 billion hours, the streaming service said on Tuesday.
The science-fiction drama starring Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown has become the most popular English-language series on Netflix. The only other Netflix show to cross 1 billion viewing hours is South Korean drama Squid Game.
Stranger Things also hit No.1 on Netflix’s Top 10 lists in 91 countries, a first for an English-language TV series, the company said.Shortly after the final episodes aired, Stranger Things also broke Nielsen streaming record for most-viewed programme in a week’s time. The show was viewed for 7.2 billion minutes between May 30 and June 5, which was around the time of the release of the show’s Season 4 volume 1. It easily secured the No.1 position on the chart.
The show’s fourth season concluded with the final two episodes released last week, briefly crashing the Netflix app as fans rushed to view it.
Not only did the recent season break several records, it also pushed a 1985 song ‘Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)’ by Kate Bush to the top of the charts 37 years after its release. The song has now found a new fanbase among a younger generation in the latest season of the show.The sci-fi drama, set in the 1980s, debuted in 2016 showing supernatural horror emerging from the Upside Down, an alternate dimension and besetting the fictional Indiana town of Hawkins.Season 4 won't be the end. We know what the end is, and we know when it is," said co-creator Ross Duffer. "The pandemic has given us time to look ahead, figure out what is best for the show. Starting to fill that out gave us a better idea of how long we need to tell that story," he added.
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