This is Planet Money from NPR.
Hey, it's Kenny Malone, and this episode is coming out on December 24th.
And so we here at Planet Money,
we would love to wish all of you who celebrate a very, very merry night before Stranger Things.
Tomorrow is Christmas and Netflix is about to shovel like four hours of stranger things down our chimneys.
Now, I had hoped that for this final season,
Netflix might consider taking each of these highly anticipated episodes that cost like $50 million a piece on average,
and then release them episode by episode, week by week.
But nope, Netflix is avalanching these directly onto the holidays.
Four episodes onto Thanksgiving,
three onto Christmas and a two-hour final episode on New Year's Eve.
And so that is why, I hope they're not listening to this,
I will be sneaking away in the middle of my in-laws' Christmas festivities to binge watch from what I've read,
like three hours and 52 minutes of Demogorgons and whatnot, because if I wait, I may get spoiled.
This is the world Netflix has created, and it seems to be going great for them.
you know, of the little startup that used to lend us DVDs in the mail is now so big and powerful.
It is maybe going to buy Warner Brothers and own Bugs Bunny and Tony Soprano and the Harry Potter movies.
And the strategy of binge dropping entire seasons of television has arguably built that Netflix.
Waylon Wong.
Hello.