Netflix keeps making this same fatal mistake — and it’s killing their biggest shows

(L to R) Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield and Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair are lined up in Stranger Things 4.

In the streaming era, it feels like we have two choices when it comes to watching TV. Either we race through an entire season as fast as possible, or we stream things old-school with weekly episode drops. 

But in the last few years, Netflix has adopted another strategy for many of their biggest shows. Anyone who watches enough Netflix content will have noticed this by now.