Netflix subscribers flocked to Bridgerton and, well, more Bridgerton last week, as Season 2 of the Shonda Rhimes-produced period piece set a Netflix record as the most viewed English-language TV title in its premiere weekend, for the week of March 21.
On the English-language TV side, Bridgerton Season 2 reigned as No. 1, amassing a total of 193.02 million hours (!), followed by the first season of the game show-style cooking series Is It Cake? (48.94 million hours) and Bridgerton’s first season (32.28 million hours).
The Korean romcom The Business Proposal topped the non-English TV list (30.94 million hours viewed), with Korean coming-of-age melodrama Twenty Five Twenty One at No. 2 (24.15 million views) and in third, Columbian telenovela Café con Aroma De Mujer (18.27 million hours).
The Adam Project, the family-friendly sci-fi film starring Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Zoe Saldana and Mark Ruffalo held on to the No. 1 spot for a third week in a row with 31.7 million hours viewed. Biographical drama Rescued by Ruby was in second (17.03 million hours), followed by Will Smith’s 2019 thriller Gemini Man (16.45 million hours).
Black Crab, the Swedish post-apocalyptic action adventure film starring Noomi Rapace, debuts at No. 1 in Netflix’s non-English list (40.51), followed by the Turkish melodrama In Good Hands (28.93 million hours) and Peruvian romcom Without Saying Goodbye (13.85 million hours)
Week of March 21-27, 2022:
Top 10 TV (English)
| Title | Hours Viewed | Weeks in Top 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Bridgerton: Season 2 | 193,020,000 | 1 |
| 2. | Is It Cake?: Season 1 | 48,940,000 | 1 |
| 3. | Bridgerton: Season 1 | 32,280,000 | 1 |
| 4. | Top Boy: Season 2 | 30,640,000 | 2 |
| 5. | Inventing Anna: Limited Series | 28,990,000 | 7 |
| 6. | The Last Kingdom: Season 5 | 27,820,000 | 3 |
| 7. | Pieces of Her: Season 1 | 21,770,000 | 4 |
| 8. | Top Boy: Season 1 | 19,260,000 | 1 |
| 9. | Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.: Limited Series | 17,570,000 | 2 |
| 10. | Human Resources: Season 1 | 16,230,000 | 1 |
Top 10 TV (Non-English)
| Title | Hours Viewed | Weeks in Top 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Business Proposal: Season 1 | 30,940,000 | 3 |
| 2. | Twenty Five Twenty One: Season 1 | 24,150,000 | 5 |
| 3. | Café con aroma de mujer: Season 1 | 18,270,000 | 13 |
| 4. | Forecasting Love and Weather: Season 1 | 14,480,000 | 5 |
| 5. | Cracow Monsters: Season 1 | 13,260,000 | 1 |
| 6. | Juvenile Justice: Season 1 | 12,510,000 | 5 |
| 7. | All of Us Are Dead: Season 1 | 11,380,000 | 9 |
| 8. | Yo Soy Betty La Fea: Season 1 | 11,160,000 | 16 |
| 9. | Thirty-Nine: Season 1 | 10,430,000 | 3 |
| 10. | Pedal to Metal: Season 1 | 8,150,000 | 1 |
Top 10 Films (English)
| Title | Hours Viewed | Weeks in Top 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Adam Project | 31,700,000 | 3 |
| 2. | Rescued by Ruby | 17,030,000 | 2 |
| 3. | Gemini Man | 16,450,000 | 2 |
| 4. | Windfall | 15,490,000 | 2 |
| 5. | John Wick: Chapter 2 | 7,800,000 | 1 |
| 6. | The Dead Don’t Die | 7,570,000 | 1 |
| 7. | 6 Underground | 7,440,000 | 2 |
| 8. | A Walk Among The Tombstones | 6,740,000 | 2 |
| 9. | Shrek | 6,350,000 | 4 |
| 10. | Despicable Me 2 | 5,750,000 | 7 |
Top 10 Films (Non-English)
| Title | Hours Viewed | Weeks in Top 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Black Crab | 40,510,000 | 2 |
| 2. | In Good Hands | 28,930,000 | 1 |
| 3. | Without Saying Goodbye | 13,850,000 | 2 |
| 4. | ’83 | 10,530,000 | 1 |
| 5. | The Bombardment | 3,170,000 | 3 |
| 6. | Restless | 3,030,000 | 5 |
| 7. | Through My Window | 2,520,000 | 8 |
| 8. | Today We Fix The World | 2,270,000 | 2 |
| 9. | The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure | 2,260,000 | 4 |
| 10. | Love Like the Falling Petals | 2,210,000 | 1 |