Stranger Things wins 2020 Peabody Award for season 3
By Michael Bish
The cast and crew of Stranger Things won a 2020 Peabody Award
Stranger Things just won another major award!
According to Variety, Stranger Things is among this year’s Peabody Award winners. The 30 different shows/winners were announced on the morning of Wednesday, June 10.
For those who may not know, this set of Peabody Awards are for the shows that were most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019.
Stranger Things received this award because of the highly successful release of season 3, which premiered back on July 4, 2019. Season 3 racked up nearly 20 million views in the first four days of its release, shattering Netflix records, according to Netflix.
The Duffer Brothers responded to the news via Variety:
"“This is an incredible honor and the company we find ourselves in is inspiring, to say the least.”"
Stranger Things wasn’t the only Netflix show to be recognized for this award. The Edge of Democracy, Unbelievable, and When They See Us also won the same award.
It’s great to finally see Stranger Things win an award for the phenomenal season that season 3 was. Many felt that the series had been overlooked over the past year when it came to awards shows. I know for a fact fans thought the series was snubbed at this past year’s SAG Awards and Emmys.
The hard work from the cast and crew was finally recognized and rewarded as it should be.
It’s also great that we still get to see Stranger Things in the news headlines despite everything going on with the coronavirus and season 4 production being on hold for now. Fans across the world are waiting for the news that production on season 4 has resumed.
There’s no official word on when exactly season 4 will resume with production, but you can count on it not being rushed. The Duffer Brothers aren’t going to put out a product that is rushed and not done to its full potential.
Stay tuned for all updates on Stranger Things season 4 including production resuming and when a possible release date may be! We’ll let you know more about season 4 as soon as we find out any new information about the upcoming season of the Netflix original series.