It sets the stage for a massive showing on both Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve as Netflix rolls out the final episodes of the series. While Nielsen reports are a month delayed, Netflix will report the totals for Season 5’s remaining episodes in the coming weeks, as it did for the first four episodes .

Stranger Things Season 5 has officially broken streaming records, and that's before Netflix drops the second installment on Christmas Day.

Honestly, that last bit of Sink’s story feels like a true gut punch of a moment. Of course, at that point, she’d still yet to actually film her final scenes as Max. Later on in the interview, the Fear Street star recalled that “last day,” and she explained why that occasion was “weird” more than anything else:

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