‘Bridgerton’s Season 2 Edges Season 1 To Become Netflix’s Most-Watched English-Language Series Debut

Patrick Hipes
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Season 2 of Netflix’s hit period series Bridgerton surpassed its own Season 1 to become the most-watched English-language series debut ever on the streamer.

The feat comes as the latest season of the Shondaland-produced Regency-era series has a total of 627.11 million hours viewed on the streamer, surpassing Season 1 which had 625.49 million hours during the same span.

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Netflix measures its Top 10 most popular TV series of all time based on hours viewed in their first 28 days. Bridgerton Season 2 climbed to the top with four days to spare, having bowed March 25.

Netflix’s Korean-language powerhouse Squid Game remains the streamer’s most-watched TV series ever, with 1.65 billion hours viewed in its first 28 days.

Bridgerton‘s Season 2 continues its record run after its first full week of release set a high for the most viewed title in a week on the English TV list (251.74M hours). It added 66.61 million hours during its most current week, which ran April 11-17, topping the weekly top 10 that included debuts for the limited series Anatomy of a Scandal (40.28 million hours) at No. 3 and Our Great National Parks (17.09 million) at No. 5.

Another buzzy Shondaland series, Inventing Anna, was at No. 6 in its 10th week on the charts and is currently No. 5 on the all-time English-language debut list.

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