The first season of Squid Game is the biggest show in Netflix‘s history. Season two is shaping up to be just as huge.
The Korean hit drew a record-high number of views over its opening weekend, the streamer says. Internal figures from Netflix show Squid Game season two racking up 68 million views worldwide (as measured by the total viewing hours, 487.6 million, divided by its run time of 7 hours, 10 minutes) in the four days after its Dec. 26 premiere. That smashes the previous week-one record set by Wednesday (50.1 million views) in November 2022.
The show’s first four days of release already put season two on Netflix’s all-time top 10 for non-English language series: It currently ranks seventh, just behind part two of Lupin (68.4 million views). Another week of viewing will likely move Squid Game season two into second place on the list, behind only season one. Netflix’s all-time top 10 lists include views over a show or movie’s first 91 days of release.
Squid Game was the No. 1 series in 92 of the 93 countries Netflix lists on its rankings for the week of Dec. 23-29. The only outlier was the United States, where season two ranked behind the streamer’s two Christmas Day NFL games.
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