The fifth season of the acclaimed series 'Stranger Things' reached 59.6 million views since its premiere on November 27th, becoming the largest English-language television debut in Netflix history.
All five seasons of the series were also in the Top 10 most-watched content on the platform, and collectively, the first four installments have accumulated 1.2 billion views since their premiere, according to Netflix data.
"The series is already a decade old, and seeing how the fan base not only endures but continues to grow has been incredibly gratifying for us," said the Duffer brothers, the show's creators.
This figure places 'Stranger Things' as the third biggest launch in the platform's history, surpassed only by the second and third seasons of the South Korean series 'Squid Game', according to Variety.
"The number of followers who have already seen Volume 1 is astounding; the response has been greater than we ever could have imagined," the entertainment giant reported this Tuesday through its TUDUM page.
The final season's first volume, starring Millie Bobby Brown, "ranked in the Top 10 in 93 countries and reached number one in 90 of them," the entertainment colossus reported.
This final season is divided into several parts: the first, which has already been released and consists of four episodes; the second, which premieres on December 25th with three episodes; and the final part, which will be available on the last day of the year.
Set in the 1980s, 'Stranger Things' follows a group of teenage friends as they uncover secret government experiments and supernatural forces from the 'Upside Down'.
The new season moves to the fall of 1987, when the town of Hawkins is marked by the opening of new interdimensional 'crevices', and the local gang of heroes bands together to find and kill the antagonist 'Vecna', while the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified the search for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who has disappeared.
