‘Squid Game’ Viewership Goes Beyond Netflix’s Wildest Expectations

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If you are subscribed to Netflix, and even if you’re not, there’s a 150% chance you’ve heard of the Squid Game. Korean drama premiered on Netflix on September 17, and since then it became a global phenomenon. Believe it or not, the show was watched by 142 million households so far, which surprised Netflix execs and the creator of the show Hwang Dong-hyuk.

As reported by Deadline, Netflix revealed the statistics in a letter to their investors:

A mind-boggling 142m member households globally have chosen to watch the title in its first four weeks. The breadth of Squid Game’s popularity is truly amazing.

Dong-hyuk recently said that he’s not sure if Season 2 will happen, but that he has the idea for it if it does. And considering all the wild numbers the show brought to Netflix, we’re honestly surprised that Netflix didn’t say anything about Season 2 yet.

Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show is following a group of contenders invited to participate in the competition where the last standing person wins  $38.6 million. There was even a real-life interpretation of the games held in Abu Dhabi last week.

Source: Deadline

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.