Squid Sport Season 2 has been one of many greatest hits for Netflix, setting a brand new viewership report for the streamer throughout its opening weekend.
What had been Squid Sport Season 2’s viewership numbers?
In response to current inner figures from Netflix (through The Hollywood Reporter), Squid Sport’s second season’s opening weekend garnered 68 million views worldwide within the 4 days following its premiere on December 26. The info gathered by Netflix comes from taking the present’s whole viewing hours, which was 487.6 million, and dividing it by the present’s whole runtime of seven hours and 10 minutes.
This quantity units a brand new report for Netflix, simply beating the one-week report set by Wednesday (50.1 million) in 2022. The numbers additionally put Squid Sport Season 2 into Netflix’s high 10 reveals of all time for non-English language programming, rating seventh following simply its first week.
The primary season of Squid Sport managed to rack up 265.2 million views over its first 91 days, and judging by the numbers Season 2 has already garnered, it could catch it even sooner. A 3rd season of the collection can be set to launch in 2025, and has already been filmed.
The forged of the brand new season of Squid Sport consists of Gong Yoo, Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Gained Ji-an.
Hwang Dong-hyuk serves as the author, director, and government producer for the brand new season of the collection. He stated of Squid Sport Season 2 when chatting with Tudum in 2022, “There’s undoubtedly loads of stress on make [Season 2] even higher. I do know that loads of the totally different followers and audiences have loved the collection very a lot, however, actually, we’re specializing in make it much more joyful to the worldwide viewers.”
The primary season of Squid Sport was launched in September 2021. It rapidly turned one among Netflix’s most-watched collection of all time after which went on to win quite a few totally different awards, together with the Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Collection (Lee Jung-jae), Excellent Directing for a Drama Collection (Hwang Dong-hyuk), and extra.
(Supply: The Hollywood Reporter)