The highly anticipated ‘Stranger Things’ finale started seeing a surge in traffic at 5 p.m. PT on January 1|@Stranger_Things|X
Netflix’s Stranger Things came to an end on New Year’s Day, causing the streaming platform to briefly crash for a second time as the final episode dropped.
The highly anticipated finale saw a surge in traffic at 5 p.m. PT, leading to technical difficulties for several users for approximately 1 minute. A similar outage happened when the first few episodes of season 5 debuted in November.
The sci-fi series, which follows a group of schoolkids in the 1980s as they try to defeat the sinister Vecna, has been a global hit, boosting Netflix’s viewership.
Its final season had a record-breaking opening week, with nearly 60 million views. The series also fueled Netflix’s highest-ever viewership for Christmas Day.
To celebrate the end of a decade-long journey, Netflix organized theater screenings of the finale, with 3,500 showings already sold out across 620 theaters.