The South Korean series breaks a historic Netflix record and dethrones “Wednesday”

The South Korean series breaks a historic Netflix record and dethrones “Wednesday”
The South Korean series breaks a historic Netflix record and dethrones “Wednesday”

Success cannot be denied for Squid Game : while its first season had, in 2021, achieved the best start on Netflix (with 111 million views in seventeen days), its sequel, available since December 26, 2024, broke a new historic record with 68 million views views in just four days, according to the platform.

The second season of the South Korean series therefore becomes the biggest series launch in Netflix history by erasing its colleague from the shelves Wednesdayco-directed by Tim Burton and which, in 2022, had accumulated 50.1 million views during its first week of broadcast.

One record leads to others

Now the first production to reach number one in all 93 countries where Netflix is ​​available, Squid Game 2 also rose to 7th place among the most watched “non-English titles” on the streaming platform. And she started again Squid Game 1which lands in third place in this same ranking.

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The sequel to the dystopian series therefore seems well on its way to surpassing its first season, which set an absolute record on Netflix by accumulating more than 2.2 billion hours of viewing!


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