The original post: /r/television by /u/Dianagorgon on 2025-10-07 19:21:46+00:00.
According to Puck, the streamer spent $50 to $60 million per episode for the show’s final season, putting its total price tag in the range of $400 to $480 million. This is up from season 4’s reported budget of $30 million per episode.
There is no way any TV show is the worth that much. Stranger Things is popular but it had less viewers than Squid Game and Wednesday which cost a fraction of that. I find the amount they spent on it offensive. Not only did they force fans to wait almost 4 years for the final season lots of shows were cancelled or never got made because of the money spent on Stranger Things. Netflix also spent over 720M on The Wicher seasons.
Studio executives complain that people aren’t watching TV anymore but that is because new shows aren’t being made due to the exorbitant budget for a few shows like Rings of Power, Citadel, The Wicher and Stranger Things.