ByPaul Tassi,
Senior Contributor.
We have nearly arrived at the grand finale of Stranger Things in season 5, the conclusion to one of Netflix’s most popular series of all time. Well, we’ve nearly arrived at half of the season, where the release dates for eight episodes are being spread out over the course of a month.
It is no longer unusual for Netflix to make its most popular shows air chunks of episodes a month apart, usually in halves. This seems in part to drive further conversation, but more pressingly, get people to subscribe to the service for two months instead of one, and possibly make them forget to cancel altogether now that they can no longer binge and delete in one sitting.
Stranger Things breaking things up into three parts in one month is eye-rolling enough, but it has also decided that the best time for these episodes to air is on the three holidays that take place over the next month. So we have:
