Stranger Things Season 4 cost $30 million per episode—a budget rivaling Avatar . This allowed for a 45-day shoot for a single car chase scene. The Crown is a study in period production, spending millions on recreating Buckingham Palace down to the thread count of the curtains. Meanwhile, Squid Game proved that a non-English production could become Netflix’s most-watched series ever, smashing the assumption that American audiences won't read subtitles.
Look for productions co-financed by A24 + HBO or Universal + Blumhouse . The golden age of “one studio rules all” is dead. The new golden age is directors with vision and studios with guts .