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On today’s second episode for Stranger Universe, I will go over an announcement from a Netflix
producer saying that Stranger Things 5 will NOT be released weekly.
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In an article from Variety, a Netflix executive producer assured viewers that their flagship
original series will not be released in a weekly schedule . Stranger Things 4 has already
smashed multiple Netflix viewership records in less than two weeks after its release,
and anticipation for Volume 2 is building more by the day.
But the success of the streamer’s first-ever two-batch drop with just over a month in between
releases does not mean Netflix is considering shaking up the Stranger Things model further
ahead of its fifth and final season, meaning there are no plans to shift the Duffer Brothers’
flagship series to a weekly release.
“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,” Peter Friedlander, Netflix’s
head of scripted series for U.S. and Canada, said during a panel moderated by Variety’s
TV editor Michael Schneider at Tuesday’s HRTS Presidents Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton
in LA.
“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.”
According to Friedlander, the binge model is still the likely path for all scripted
series at Netflix.
“We fundamentally believe that we want to give our members the choice in how they view.
And so giving them that option on these scripted series to watch as much as they want to watch
when they watch it, is still fundamental to what we want to provide.
And so when you see something like a batched season with ‘Stranger Things,’ this is
our attempt at making sure we can get shows out quicker to the members.”
He says this choice is really about servicing Netflix’s subscribers in more expedient
ways.
“That’s what you see with Stranger Things and that’s what you see with Ozark.
So we have had some experimentation in that space.
But it’s also, you’re giving multiple-episodic-viewing experiences, it isn’t a standalone.
So it really does, what we think, honors our relationship with our members and what their
expectations are.
There have been other types of launch cadences, but that’s connected to an unscripted approach
or a competition approach.”
I respect their decision to maintain a binge model release for Stranger Things 5, since
the franchise has always been released this way.
I do have to wonder if season 5 will also be divided in 2 volumes, but that’s a question
that’s more appropriate to ask after season 4 volume 2 comes out.
Overall, very exciting times.
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