The first season of Squid Game is the biggest show in Netflix‘s history. Season two is shaping up to be just as huge.
The Korean hit drew a record-high number of views over its opening weekend, the streamer says. Internal figures from Netflix show Squid Game season two racking up 68 million views worldwide (as measured by the total viewing hours, 487.6 million, divided by its run time of 7 hours, 10 minutes) in the four days after its Dec. 26 premiere. That smashes the previous week-one record set by Wednesday (50.1 million views) in November 2022.
The show’s first four days of release have already put season two on Netflix’s all-time top 10 for non-English language series: It currently ranks seventh, just behind part two of Lupin (68.4 million views). Another week of viewing will likely move Squid Game season two into second place on the list, behind only season one. Netflix’s all-time top 10 lists include views over a show or movie’s first 91 days of release.
Season one of Squid Game tallied 265.2 million views over its first 91 days. Season two is already a little more than 25 percent of the way to that total.
Squid Game was the No. 1 series in 92 of the 93 countries Netflix lists on its rankings for the week of Dec. 23-29. The only outlier was the United States, where season two ranked behind the streamer’s two Christmas Day NFL games.
The release of season two also brought increased viewing of season one. It ranked third on the non-English language series list for the week with 8.1 million views (67.1 million hours of viewing) worldwide. (The Norwegian disaster miniseries La Palma is second at 12.2 million views.)
Season two of Squid Game is largely set two years after the events of the first season, with victor Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) re-entering the game in an effort to find and take down the people responsible for it, including the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun). Series creator and showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk has said the series will end with a third season, currently set to premiere next year.