The “Stranger Things” phenomenon is unstoppable. After three years of absence, the series is back stronger than ever, with an extended fourth season and an increasingly epic scale that has had everyone’s hearts in their mouths in recent months. It goes without saying that the Duffer brothers’ fiction is one of the most watched on Netflix and with its new episodes its audiences have skyrocketed in the stratosphere.
According to official data from the streamer (via Variety), after the premiere on July 1 of volume 2, consisting of episodes 8 and 9, the fourth season of ‘Stranger Things’ has passed the threshold of one billion hours played, adding in particular 1,150 hours from the release of the first volume on May 27th.
This makes it the second Netflix original series to surpass this figure, only behind “The Squid Game”. The South Korean series remains at number 1 with 1,650 million hours watched (figure corresponding to the first 28 days on the platform, or the range within which Netflix measures the success of its products and makes its rankings).
Although “Stranger Things” failed to reach “The Squid Game”, it has a good chance of making it in the next few weeks, since Netflix will continue to add volume 2 hours until the end of July. Thanks to the two-part airing and the extended duration of the last two episodes (85 and 149 minutes respectively), the fantastic series has everything in its favor for having bypassed the Korean phenomenon once Netflix has finished counting the views of the second. volume.
Also sweeps “The Umbrella Academy”.
The grand finale of “Stranger Things 4” may have overshadowed another comeback, that of “The Umbrella Academy,” in an online conversation, but the truth is that the series starring Elliot Page isn’t doing badly either. After her third season premiered on June 22, she managed to unseat “Stranger Things” from the top spot for a few days.
After two weeks on the platform, “The Umbrella Academy” remains in second place with 87,980 hours played between June 27 and July 3, surpassed only by ‘Stranger Things’, which in the same time frame added 301,280, a figure with which it reached 1,000 million. Secondly, seven of the top ten positions are occupied by the different seasons of both seriesboth the new and the previous ones, which viewers have brought back to the top of the list with the timing of the new episodes of each.
Source: E Cartelera
