Those aren’t July 4 fireworks; they’re “Stranger Things 4” Fourth of July Weekend ratings.Buoyed by the highly anticipated release of its final two Season 4 episodes “Stranger Things” just became only the second Netflix series ever to cross 1 billion hours viewed within its first 28 days of availability, according to the streaming service’s internal metrics.
Korean-language sensation “Squid Game” Season 1 was the first; it remains the overall record holder with 1.65 billion hours of viewership over its first four weeks.
“Squid Game” has been renewed for a second season.Now with 1.15 billion hours viewed within its first 28 days of availability, “Stranger Things 4” is the first English-language series to top that mind-numbing billion-hour threshold.Episodes 8 and 9, the supersized final two episodes of Season 4, were released by Netflix on Friday.
Those two episodes combined for 235 minutes of runtime and 301.28 million hours viewed in just three days of availability.
They were very long (the
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