Netflix has released its latest six-month trove of viewing data, and if the compilation of more than 15,000 series and movies points to anything, it’s how big a phenomenon Squid Game is.
Season two of the Korean hit was the most watched series worldwide in the second half of 2024, in both Netflix’s preferred view metric (86.5 million, measured by dividing viewing hours by running time) and total viewing time (619.9 million hours). Remarkably, it did all that in just six days — season two premiered on Dec. 26.
In under a week, Squid Game drew 69.5 million more viewing hours than the second-place show in that measure — Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which accumulated 550.4 million hours in three-plus months after its Sept. 19 premiere. In views, Squid Game had 11.4 million more than The Perfect Couple (75.1 million), which also debuted in September and
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