• Stranger Things 5 broke Netflix viewership records with 59.6 million views in its first five days. • Fans eagerly awaited the season after a three-year gap, leading to high demand and even a brief Netflix crash. • All four previous Stranger Things seasons also entered Netflix’s top 10, a first for any series on the platform.

A returning sci-fi series has become Netflix’s biggest English-language debut ever, and the third biggest overall.

The only other show to have achieved higher viewership figures on the platform is seasons 2 and 3 of Squid Game.

So what’s the TV programme in question? Well, we are, of course, talking about Stranger Things season 5.

In the first five days since it landed on Netflix, Stranger Things’ fifth outing achieved 59.6million views – breaking records for

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