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No Ju-han/Netflix As expected, the second installation of “Squid Game” has been an immediate and massive success. Season 2 debuted with 68 million views in its first four days of availability — more than any other Netflix series has achieved in its premiere week, beating a record that “Wednesday” set with 50.1 million views in 2022.
The season also rapidly landed on Netflix’s list of its most popular non-English language TV titles of all time at No. 7, which is measured across each series’ first 91 days of viewership. Season 1 of “Squid Game” currently sits at the top of that list with 265.2 views, but Season 2 has plenty of time to potentially cross that line.
Naturally, this made “Squid Game” Season 2 Netflix’s most-watched title of the week of Dec. 23-29. Season 1 also saw renewed interest, charting as the No. 3 non-English language TV series of the week with 8.1 million views. The week’s second-most-watched title overall was the Taron Egerton-led movie “Carry-On” (34.9 million views) followed by the Tyler Perry-directed movie “The Six Triple Eight” (23.3 million).
Popular on Variety The English-language TV chart was led by Netflix’s two Christmas Day NFL games: The Ravens-Texans game, which featured a halftime performance from Beyoncé, was No. 1 with 14.4 million views, and the Chiefs-Steelers game was right behind it with 14.3 million.
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