Eight episodes, but the mall is open late. Episode lengths jump dramatically: the premiere (“Suzie, Do You Copy?”) runs 51 minutes; the finale (“The Battle of Starcourt”) is a staggering 77 minutes—a full feature film tacked onto the end. Total for Season 3: 7 hours and 35 minutes . By now, your sleep schedule is upside down too.
Eleven episodes, each roughly 42 to 55 minutes. The premiere runs a tidy 47 minutes; the finale stretches to 53. The total runtime for the season that started it all comes to approximately 6 hours and 35 minutes . You’ll finish it in a single night, bleary-eyed, convinced you hear Demogorgons in the heating vents.
It begins, as all things in Hawkins do, with a flicker of static and the hum of a walkie-talkie in the dark. You press play on Season 1, not knowing that you are about to cross the threshold into the Upside Down. But before you commit—before you clear your Friday night, stockpile the Eggos, and text your friends “one more episode”—you need the answer to a very practical, very urgent question: How many hours is Stranger Things, Seasons 1 through 4?