Revealed on: Dec 05, 2025 01:53 pm IST
A controversial docu collection has changed Stranger Issues season 5 on the prime of Netflix’s hottest TV reveals within the US.
Stranger Issues is Netflix’s largest English-language present. Over time, it has develop into synonymous with the streaming big within the West, simply as Squid Sport is within the East. So naturally, when the ultimate season of the present drops, most count on it to prime the preferred reveals’ listing on the streamer for weeks, if not months. However surprisingly, Stranger Issues season 5 misplaced the numero uno spot on Netflix in only a week of its launch. And it misplaced the highest spot to a documentary no much less.
Stranger Issues season 5 pipped from prime of Netflix charts
4 episodes of the fifth and remaining season of Stranger Issues launched on Netflix on 26 November worldwide. Within the 5 days after that, the so-called Quantity 1 of S5 amassed 59.6 million views to prime the viewership charts. That is the second-highest views for a Netflix present within the debut week, behind the 60 million achieved by Squid Video games season 2 earlier this yr. Stranger Issues S5 additionally trended within the prime 10 reveals on Netflix in dozens of nations the world over.
Nonetheless, by December 3, only a week after its launch, a brand new launch dethroned Stranger Issues from the highest 10 spot in the preferred reveals within the US. The spot was taken by a docu collection on the disgraced music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Titled Sean Combs: The Recknoning, the docu collection aired on Netflix from December 2 regardless of Diddy’s makes an attempt to dam its launch.
What’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning?
The docu collection unpacks the sexual abuse and trafficking allegations confronted by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and his Dangerous Boy empire, spanning a long time of his life and profession. Produced by 50 Cent, the docu collection has been labelled a ‘shameful hit piece’ by its topic, who’s behind bars at the moment. This has solely elevated its recognition, nevertheless. The present is trending within the prime 10 on Netflix worldwide, and has displaced Stranger Issues as primary within the US.
About Stranger Issues finale
Stranger Issues, created by the Duffer Brothers, started in 2016 and shortly established itself as the preferred present on the platform. Set within the fictitious city of Hawkins, Indiana, the sci-fi thriller offers with a gaggle of children who bump into a world of experiments and parallel dimensions whereas on the lookout for their lacking buddies. The present has develop into a popular culture phenomenon, and turns its younger forged into worldwide celebrities. The second quantity of episodes will drop on 25 December, with the two-hour collection finale releasing on New 12 months’s Eve.
