‘Squid Game' Dethroned In Netflix's Top 10 List By An Unusual Show
Well, I just wrote that a new, relatively obscure series was going great by debuting at #2 on Netflix's Top 10 list after season 3 of Squid Game, a show it was obviously never going to surpass.
Guess what?
Squid Game has now been dethroned by Sullivan's Crossing, the Canadian TV show that has three seasons, two of which are on Netflix, which first started airing in 2023. The third season is on right now, but that hasn't made it to Netflix yet. And a fourth season is coming. Here's the synopsis:
My doctor wife started watching this yesterday and pointed out about three medical errors in the first five minutes so The Pitt, this is not. But people seem to like it, though there are barely even enough critic or audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes to make heads or tails of its quality. IMDB is probably a better metric, and it has a 7.2/10. In context, that's quite good. I assume it's gotten a full two extra points just for Chad Michael Murray's hair.
Squid Game
This happens periodically with Netflix, where some very random, licensed show crops up and somehow becomes the most watched program in America for some amount of time. Often these are older, cancelled shows, and sometimes that leads to fanbases attempting to revive them. But this isn't Manifest; Sullivan's Crossing is still going strong.
Squid Game? Despite being #2 now, it doesn't matter. Season 3 has soared up the Netflix charts and despite only being released two weeks ago, it's the third most-viewed non-English language season in Netflix history behind, you guessed it, season 2 and season 1 of Squid Game. It will probably pass season 2 eventually, but probably not the viral sensation of season 2. These figures also make season 3 of Squid Game inside the top 10 of all Netflix seasons, currently tied around Bridgerton season 3, and it will likely pass up The Queen's Gambit, Bridgerton season 1 and Dahmer in the coming weeks.
Rumors of spin-offs of Squid Game are still swirling, the most likely of which being an American version, but as ever, that has not been confirmed. And to touch briefly on one more list item, I expect to hear about season 2 of The Waterfront in short order here.
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