An upcoming play exploring the British Asian drag community, uncovering the untold stories of men who don female personas by night, will be the company’s most provocative yet, its artistic director said.
Miss Meena and the Masala Queens follows the story of drag queen Miss Meena, whose nightclub has fallen on hard times. Just as a new face arrives with a glimmer of hope, however, Miss Meena finds himself in a moral dilemma.
Director Pravesh Kumar, who is also artistic director of Rifco...
Strongest opening for an English-language series and the third-biggest debut overall
Netflix’s flagship sci-fi series returns with a record-setting launch. The fifth season of Stranger Things reaches 59.6 million views in its first five days, giving the platform its strongest opening for an English-language series and the third-biggest debut overall, behind the second and third seasons of Squid Game.
This marks a major rise from the fourth season, which opened in 2022 with 287 million hours watched. Under Netflix’s updated “views” metric, that figure translates to around 22 million views. The latest season therefore, posts a 171% increase, though this year’s total covers five days of viewing compared with three for season four.
Ahead of the release, all previous Stranger Things seasons enter Netflix’s global top 10 at the same time – a first for any series on the service. The surge in traffic briefly causes the platform to freeze despite a 30% increase in bandwidth, according to co-creator Ross Duffer.
The new run releases its first four episodes together, forming half of the final eight-episode arc.
First launched in 2016, Stranger Things remains one of Netflix’s most popular English-language dramas. It has helped propel the careers of Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink and Gaten Matarazzo, alongside long-time cast members Winona Ryder and David Harbour.
Season five returns to Hawkins, Indiana, with a time jump to account for the maturing cast. The Duffers have hinted that the final chapter includes “the most violent death of any season”.
The Guardian’s Jack Seale highlights the fourth episode in particular, describing it as a “solidly thrilling 90 minutes” packed with effects-driven action and a finale designed to make fans “stand on their chairs”.
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