As "Stranger Things" closed out its five-season run with a long-awaited return this holiday season, the tentpole series had a seismic impact on both Netflix and the overall the TV landscape, setting records for the streamer from the jump.

Netflix users spent 325.6 million hours watching season five last week — not counting those who went to movie theaters to watch the final episode on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The finale made an estimated $20 million to $25 million in revenue for theater chains over those two days.

Stranger Things is coming to a close. The series will officially end as 2026 begins with Stranger Things 5, the show’s final season. And that means it will be time to say goodbye to new episodes of the series we’ve all loved so much. But for the ...

Netflix has announced a new viewership record for its limited series Adolescence, confirming that the show has overtaken Stranger Things Season 4 in total views. The update comes as Netflix continues to highlight top-performing titles in its global rankings.

So instead, upon seeing that Ted is alive and well, one only has to assume that his grief was entirely focused on Eleven, which then allows for his optimistic outlook to have peak impact. If he'd been too much of an emotional wreck during graduation day, it might have made his D&D-tethered theory sound far more desperate and nutty than idealistic.

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Stranger Things Season 5’s biggest twist, that the Mind Flayer was the real villain all along, was pretty well signposted. The end of Season 4 had apparently turned the entire story upside down, with Vecna claiming he was the show’s real villain and that he’d created the Mind Flayer.

Stranger Things tops Netflix’s U.S. chart with all five seasons in the Top 10, while a gripping new mystery claims the #2 spot.

Stranger Things has officially come to an end on Netflix after five wonderful seasons. After taking a few days to digest the finale and final moments of the hit

The two-hour finale of Stranger Things, released in the evening of New Year’s Eve, fueled Netflix to its most views ever on a New Year's Day. The streamer would not reveal how many those views were but announced that the entire fifth season of the supernatural series delivered 31.