Relax, “Stranger Things” Episodes are Not Switching to a Weekly Release

Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Noah Schnapp in
Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, and Noah Schnapp in "Stranger Things"

Remember when series episodes were released one week at a time? Yeah, us too.

Fortunately, streaming services have mostly put that agonizing wait to bed and allowed our binge-watching desires to run wild! After all, it’s already tough enough to have to wait one to two years for new seasons.

Fans of Stranger Things thankfully don’t have to wait that long between the first and second volumes of Season 4, with Part 2 due out next month. There was a rumor, however, that episodes of the fifth and final season would be dropped on a weekly basis. Shudder.

You’ll be pleased to know, then, that no such thing is taking place and you can lay back as the tiny icon stating “next episode in…” will still be popping up on your screen!

“For the fans of Stranger Things, this is how they’ve been watching that show, and I think to change that on them would be disappointing,” said Netflix’s head of scripted series for U.S. and Canada, Peter Friedlander, of the binge-watching format. “To not give them exactly what they’ve been expecting — which is Stranger Things is a seasonal experience, they go through that with them — I think that it would be an abrupt change for the member.”

The current structure is clearly working as the recently released fourth season of the Duffer Brothers’ series has become Netflix’s third most popular English-language TV season ever.