The Two Records ‘Squid Game' Season 3 Just Broke On Netflix
While it was fairly obvious that the final season (maybe) of Squid Game would rack up huge viewership, the show has now broken a pair of records that are above and beyond perhaps what was even expected.
Netflix has just announced that season 3 of Squid Game has become the show with the most views in its first three days in the history of the service, 60.1 million. During those three days, it has already become the ninth most popular non-English TV season of all time, and it will no doubt rocket up that list to perhaps be second only to the original Squid Game season 1. I doubt it passes it, but maybe.
The second record is that Squid Game season 3 debuted at #1 in all 93 countries that make up the Netflix user base. No other season of a show has done that before, as different regions will often have different tastes. But Squid Game is universal.
Why is this setting records that Squid Game season 1 didn't, even though that is far and away Netflix's biggest show ever? That would be because when Squid Game first arrived, it was a slow burn because, well, no one had ever heard of this brand new property and may not have instantly chosen to watch a Korean-language series in many regions. However, word of mouth caught fire, and Squid Game started steamrolling into becoming the mega-giant series that it now is. Was? Is, I'd say, given that I fully believe the 'Squid Game Universe' is something Netflix is going to try to shape from here.
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Netflix notes that one of those above points has changed over time, as 80% of Netflix users have watched some sort of Korean content on the service, where that region is where the most Netflix series come from outside of the US (even if it is a large disparity). Netflix has announced they will invest in even more Korean content from here.
The Squid Game season 3 record has been set despite the fact that many fans seem to agree it…wasn't all that good of a finale. Season 3 has the lowest critic score of the series but a quite bad 50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, as by the end, I would agree that the show devolved into something of a mess as it wrapped up Gi-hun's saga in strange ways that emphasized that maybe this show was never meant to have two more seasons and one more game, which was never the original plan until it was a hit.
We will keep an eye on the records that continue to be set, and where it ends up in the pantheon of Netflix's most-viewed series.
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