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“Squid Game” may be over, but it’s legacy will live on. In the first three days on Netflix, the third season of the thriller made it onto Netflix’s Most Popular non-English language shows list, securing 60.1 million views and breaking the record for most views for a show in that time frame. “Squid Game” remains the only show to appear on that list within its first week.
Additionally, the third season of director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s dystopian drama was ranked No. 1 in all countries where Netflix reports its top 10 lists, which is a first for any show in Netflix history.
Unlike Netflix’s weekly Top 10 list, the Most Popular list measures the most viewed shows and movies within their first 90 days of availability. Already, Season 3 of the hit has displaced the Mexican drama “Who Killed Sara?” as well as the “Money Heist” spinoff “Berlin,” which was pushed off the list altogether. And the season’s popularity is only expected to grow.
The first season of “Squid Game” still ranks as the most-watched Netflix series of all time, securing 265.2 million views during its first 90 days. As for Season 2, that came in as the third most-watched Netflix series of all time, securing 192.6 million views. The only show that has beaten Season 2 is the first season of “Wednesday,” which saw 252.1 million views.
“Squid Game” was by far the most watched title of the week with the second most-watched title being “KPop Demon Hunters.” That animated movie secured 24.2 million views in its second week. The Korean thriller’s popularity also boosted viewership for past seasons. “Squid Game” Season 2 was the third most watched non-English language Netflix series for the week, coming in at 2.8 million views, and Season 1 was the sixth most watched title on the list with 1.7 million views.
When it came to non-English series, the Spanish drama “Olympo” was the second most watched title of the week with 6.9 million views in its second week. After the second season of “Squid Game,” that was followed by the Indian variety show “The Great Indian Kapil Show” in fourth place (2 million views) and the Korean drama “Our Unwritten Seoul” in fifth place (1.9 million views).
Boosted by “KPop Demon Hunters,” English-language movies were then the second most watched category during the week of June 23. That was followed by the viral hit “Trainwreck: Poop Cruise,” which saw 21.1 million views in its first week. Tyler Perry’s emotional thriller “Straw” was then third on the list (7.9 million views) followed in fourth place by the 2015 Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro movie “The Intern” and in fifth place by the 2024 Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crow action movie “Land of Bad.”
The English-language list was topped by the Kevin Williamson-created “The Waterfront,” which secured 11.6 million views in its second week. That was then followed by Season 3 of “Ginny & Georgia” (4.8 million views), Season 2 of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders documentary “America’s Sweethearts” (2.8 million views), a weekly episode of WWE RAW (2.6 million views) and the Matthew Goode drama “DeptQ” (2.6 million views). Though WWE RAW has appeared in Netflix’s weekly Top 10 lists before, the June 23 episode marks one of the first time the show has cracked the top five spots on the weekly roundup.
The least watched category of the week was Netflix’s non-English language movies, which was topped by the Bollywood drama “Raid 2” with 5.6 million views. That was followed by the South African comedy “Semi-Soeter” (3.2 million views), the French drama “K.O.” (2.9 million views), the Brazilian drama “Latin Blood — The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso” (1.9 million views) and the German action-adventure “Exterritorial” (1.8 million views).
