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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Adrian Horton

Stranger Things season 5 breaks Netflix viewership record

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Noah Schnapp and Millie Bobby Brown at Leicester Square in central London, on 13 November. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

The upside-down is still the right way for Netflix – Stranger Things 5 is now the company’s biggest English-language debut ever.

The fifth season of the streaming company’s flagship sci-fi series achieved 59.6m views in its first five days on the platform, making for the best premiere week for an English-language series ever on Netflix, and the third biggest debut overall behind the second and third seasons of the Korean sensation Squid Game.

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