Stranger Things isn’t just back, it’s detonated. The long-awaited fifth season landed on Netflix with 59,500,000 views in five days, the sort of debut that turns a midweek drop into a global event.

It’s the biggest English-language launch the streamer has seen in years, a proper reminder that Hawkins still has gravity.

But even at full power, the numbers bend toward one unavoidable comparison, and the earliest third of this story belongs to it. The only other show to have achieved higher viewership figures on the platform is seasons 2 and 3 of Squid Game .

Netflix’s Korean phenomenon remains the undisputed peak of the platform’s viewing history, the juggernaut whose debut reshaped everything from costume sales to the streamer’s own accounting system.

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