Squid Game Season 2 Sets Netflix Premiere Viewership Record

Squid Recreation Season 2 has been one of many largest hits for Netflix, setting a brand new viewership file for the streamer throughout its opening weekend.

What have been Squid Recreation Season 2’s viewership numbers?

In keeping with latest inside figures from Netflix (through The Hollywood Reporter), Squid Recreation’s second season’s opening weekend garnered 68 million views worldwide within the 4 days following its premiere on December 26. The information 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 file for Netflix, simply beating the one-week file set by Wednesday (50.1 million) in 2022. The numbers additionally put Squid Recreation 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 Recreation managed to rack up 265.2 million views over its first 91 days, and judging by the numbers Season 2 has already garnered, it might catch it even quicker. A 3rd season of the sequence can be set to launch in 2025, and has already been filmed.

The forged of the brand new season of Squid Recreation contains 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 Received Ji-an.

Hwang Dong-hyuk serves as the author, director, and government producer for the brand new season of the sequence. He mentioned of Squid Recreation Season 2 when talking to Tudum in 2022, “There’s positively a number of strain on methods to make [Season 2] even higher. I do know that a number of the completely different followers and audiences have loved the sequence very a lot, however, actually, we’re specializing in methods to make it much more joyful to the worldwide viewers.” 

The primary season of Squid Recreation was launched in September 2021. It rapidly turned one in all Netflix’s most-watched sequence of all time after which went on to win quite a few completely different awards, together with the Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence (Lee Jung-jae), Excellent Directing for a Drama Sequence (Hwang Dong-hyuk), and extra.

(Supply: The Hollywood Reporter)