Can Stranger Things Season 4 break the Squid Game record on Netflix?

According to Variety, Stranger Things Season 4 has amassed 883.3 million hours of viewing time in its first 24 days. With recent estimates suggesting that the series pulls in roughly 14 million more hours every day (and possibly more now that the final two episodes of the series' penultimate season will come out on July 1), Stranger Things Season 4 has probably reached the billion-hours mark right now with some room to spare.

Ultimately, Stranger Things Season 4 probably won't beat Squid Game, but it will be one of the first to come close. The only chance that Stranger Things Season 4 will have at possibly surpassing Squid Game is if we tweak the record in its favor a bit and include the last two episodes to the encounter. Since the lengthy episodes won't air until July 1, this is far from fair. Of course, since we're talking about hypotheticals already, Netflix could drop the said episodes today or tomorrow.

If this happens, Stranger Things Season 4 will only be a hundred or so million viewing hours shy of Squid Game's record - still not quite enough, but hey, effort matters, right?

For now, Stranger Things will have to settle with a runner-up finish, which isn't half-bad as the other seasons occupy Netflix's top 10 list of most-viewed shows of all time. Besides, it's not all over for Stranger Things yet. If we go by the current pattern that each subsequent season has outdone the previous one, the final season of Stranger Things could dethrone Squid Game as Netflix's most-viewed series ever.

In the meantime, Stranger Things fans can binge-watch the first set of episodes of Season 4 as well as check out the official trailer for the season finale.