'Bridgerton' Season 2 Sets A New Record For Netflix English Language Shows
Looks like Season 2 losing its biggest star in Regé-Jean Page, who stared as Simon Basset in Season 1, didn’t affect its rating so much. ‘Bridgerton’ is still number one English language series on Netflix.
‘Bridgerton ’, based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling series of novels, is set in Regency-era London, where every year young debutants are presented at court for the upcoming social season. It’s a fruitful soil for captivating stories of passion and intrigue, and recent ratings, revealed by Forbes, proved that fans are interested in some good-old period dramedy more than ever.
For the first three days from series’ debut on March 25 to March 27, the show scored a whooping 193 million hours viewed, easily setting a new record for Netflix ’ most successful opening weekend for English-language series. However, for Season 2 to outperform its biggest international competitor – the Korean ‘Squid Game ’, boasting an enormous 1.6 billion viewing hours in its first 28 days – there needs to be some strong support from critics and fans alike. But show’s first steps to worldwide Netflix dominance already proved to pack quite a punch.