Netflix’s blockbuster historical drama series Bridgerton season 2 has overtaken its first season as the most viewed English-language series on the platform. Even though just the first season was online for the duration of that week, Season 2 aired on March 25, the Chris Van Dusen-created period romance was comfortably the No. 1 show on streaming for the week of March 21-27 on Nielsen’s rankings.
According to Netflix’s most recent quarterly report, the Regency-era series, produced by Shondaland, racked up a total of 627.11 million viewing hours in the first four weeks, exceeding season 1’s viewing hours in the same period. Squid Game, Netflix’s Korean-language sitcom, is still the streaming service’s most popular show.
“Bridgerton” was still at the top of the list of only original streaming TV series for that week, followed by “Is It Cake?,” “The Last Kingdom,” “Inventing Anna,” “Bad Vegan,” “Pieces of Her,” “Ozark,” “The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel”. “Maisel,” an Amazon Prime Video comedy, was the only non-Netflix title in the group.
Bridgerton season 2 came to the top with barely five days to spare after its March 25 release. Last month, Netflix announced that Bridgerton had been renewed for seasons 3 and 4. For “Bridgerton” third and fourth season, confirmed by the streaming site as it intent to expand the stories from Julia Quinn’s bestselling romance novel series of the same name.
In Season 2, the focus changed from Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page), the central pair from Season 1, to Daphne’s elder brother Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and his romantic interest Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley). While Dynevor returned for Season 2 and spoke about her now-husband Simon being off screen with their infant Augie, Page was fired as a series regular before the second season began and did not appear in any of the episodes.