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Squid Game season three breaks Netflix viewership record with 60.1m views

Final season of the smash series scores a new record for the streaming platform in the first three days

Lee Byung-hun in Squid Game. Photograph: Netflix

Lee Byung-hun in Squid Game. Photograph: Netflix

The third and final season of the hit Korean series Squid Game has broken records to become the biggest-ever TV launch for Netflix.

Over its first three days, the series racked up more than 60.1m views, a new high for the streamer, with more than 368.4m hours viewed. The second season launched with 68m views but over a four-day period last December.

The show has already become the ninth-biggest non-English-language season ever, with the first and second seasons occupying the top two slots.

Reviews have been mixed to positive, with the Guardian’s Rebecca Nicholson calling it “nowhere near as pointed as it was” in previous seasons.

While this has been called the final season, David Fincher has been rumoured to be developing an English-language remake for the streamer. The director has worked with Netflix before on political drama series House of Cards, film-industry biopic Mank and Michael Fassbender action-thriller The Killer. Earlier this year, it was announced that Fincher would work with Netflix once again to direct a sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood based on a script by Quentin Tarantino.

The streamer has already found success with competition spin-off Squid Game: The Challenge, with a second season on the way.

When asked about future Squid Game projects, series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told Variety that he hadn’t heard anything official yet about a remake.

“If they wanted to do a following season, then I think it’s obvious I would have to participate and lead,” he said. “But if it’s the US version that they’re making, I think sharing of ideas would be enough. I have no intention of being completely hands-on in a project like that. Having said that, if Netflixasks and if I feel like my contribution is needed, then as long as it’s not something that would interfere with whatever I’m working on at that time, I would be happy to provide what they need from me.”

Author: Benjamin Lee

Source: The Guardian

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