Netflix’s Squid Game has surpassed Bridgerton to become the streaming platform’s biggest series launch of all time. More than 111 million people watched at least 2 minutes of the show over its first four weeks, Netflix has announced.
That is well ahead of Bridgerton’s Season 1 record of 82 million views and ahead of The Witcher’s 67 million views for its own Season 1 premiere. You can see the top 10 below.
By Netflix’s metrics, a view is counted when an account watches a piece of content for 2 minutes, so we don’t know how many people watched even one episode or the entire series. Still, this is how all Netflix shows are measured, and Squid Game came out on top by a big margin.
Squid Game has officially reached 111 million fans — making it our biggest series launch ever! pic.twitter.com/SW3FJ42Qsn
— Netflix (@netflix) October 12, 2021
Squid Game is a Korean survival drama about a group of people who are brought together to pay off their debts by taking part in a series of deadly games.
Creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk told Variety that he came up with the idea for Squid Game in 2008 when it was conceived as a film. However, Korean movie studios refused to finance it due to its violent themes.
Netflix Top 10 TV Series All Time Based On First 28 Days (at least 2 minutes watched):
Via MarketWatch
- Bridgerton, Season 1 — 82 million
- Lupin, Part 1 — 76 million
- The Witcher, Season 1 — 67 million
- Sex/Life, Season 1 — 67 million
- Stranger Things 3 — 67 million
- Money Heist, Part 4 — 65 million
- Tiger King, Season 1 — 64 million
- The Queen’s Gambit — 62 million
- Sweet Tooth, Season 1 — 60 million
- Emily in Paris, Season 1 — 58 million
Source: Gamespot
