Stranger Things’ success, if anything, highlights how massive Squid Game was: Stranger Things 4 is hours longer than Squid Game and had a months-long marketing effort behind it, but Squid Game still surpassed it with 1.65 billion hours viewed. Stranger Things may still be able to catch it; Netflix’s stats will no longer include the first batch of episodes, but the most recent two have a few weeks to gain viewing hours. Those episodes are also long — like, long-movie long — giving the show an even better chance of taking the top place. (As I previously stated, the measurement is perplexing.)
