Yahoo Lifestyle Squid Game Season 2 Sets Netflix Record With 126.2 Million Views in First 11 Days
Y’all do love to see a Squid Game played.
Season 2 of Netflix’s most-watched series of all time retained its position atop the streamer’s Top 10 non-English TV list by generating another 58.2 million views this past week, seeing a record for most views for a show in its first 11 days of release.
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Squid Game‘s sophomore run had already broken the Netflix record for most views in a premiere week, with 68 million — easily besting the 50.1 million delivered by Wednesday Season 1 in 2022.
(Netflix rightly defines a “view” as “total stream time divided by runtime.”)
With its latest haul, Squid Game‘s lonnnnnng-awaited Season 2 leaped from No. 7 to No. 2 on Netflix’s all-time ranking of non-English TV shows, trailing only its sire (126.1 million views thus far, versus 265.2 million).
The same week of Squid Game Season 2’s release, Netflix’s NFL Christmas Gameday Live coverage of the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans (which featured Beyoncé’s halftime performance) and the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the English TV list (with a little over 14 million views each).
Squid Game‘s nine-episode freshman run, which was (quietly) released in September 2021, has to date amassed 265.2 million views, making it Netflix’s most-watched series of all time. (Wednesday Season 1 holds the title for English-language Netflix series, with 252.1 million views.)
Squid Game Season 1 also stands as a Top 10 all-time show in three different countries.
Squid Game Season 1 followed Seong Gi-hun (played by Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae), a gambling-prone divorcé, as he and 455 other strangers were whisked away to a secret island complex to compete in a series of children’s games all given decidedly deadly spins.
Ultimately emerging from that ordeal as the sole survivor, Gi-hun in Season 2 vowed to track down the Front Man (aka In-ho, played by Lee Byung-hun) and end his operation once and for all.
TVLine readers gave Season 2 an average grade of “B,” while its torturous cliffhanger finale earned a “B-.” Season 3 aka the final season was announced back in July, and is confirmed by Netflix to be released in 2025 — “probably summer or fall,” series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told our sister site Variety.
Read our Season 2 recaps of the game–changing reveal at the end of Episode 3… the outcome of the brutal men’s room brawl in Episode 6… and the action-packed finale, which teed up Season 3 with a tragic death. We also sang the praises of two cast members in our Performer of the Week column, and raised 15 burning questions that Season 2 left us with!
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