“Squid Sport” Season 2: You’ve got been… eradicated (from competitors with Season 1).
“Squid Sport 2” simply had the most important week-to-week decline in collection historical past — and it’s solely Week 3. That entire prediction we made about “Squid Sport 2” topping the primary season as Netflix‘s largest ever? It’s time to begin strolling that again a bit.
From its first full week of availability to its second, “views” of “Squid Sport 2” declined 55 %, from 58.2 million (the week of December 30 to January 5) to 26.3 million (Jan. 6-13). We wrap “views” in citation marks there as a result of it’s an official Netflix metric that’s extra math equation than the precise that means of the phrase. For Netflix, “views” are a season’s whole hours seen throughout the outlined time interval divided by a season’s runtime. The ensuing quotient is then rounded to the closest 100,000.
When the primary “Squid Sport” season rolled out in September 2021, Netflix solely reported weekly hours seen, so we needed to do some retroactive math. Counting solely full weeks inside the first 91 days of availability — Netflix’s self-imposed cutoff for viewership data — the biggest “Squid Sport” decline was a drop of 43 % fewer views between the primary season’s fifth to sixth weeks.
“Squid Sport” Season 1 was consumed very in a different way than “Squid Sport 2.” The unique season was a snowball — however snowballs take time to construct. As a result of Season 1 turned such a breakout sensation, “Squid Sport 2” acquired out of the gates at a far quicker tempo.
In simply its first 4 days of availability (Dec. 26-29, 2024), “Squid Sport 2” was seen a whopping 68 million occasions. That’s improbable. Solely Week 3 of “Squid Sport” Season 1 (an estimated-by-us 68.7 million views) matched that quantity — with almost twice as many days (seven vs. 4) counted.
The primary full week for “Squid Sport 2” racked up 58.2 million views, greater than any different Season 1 week. However Week 3 wouldn’t be a excessive this time round — it went the opposite method, all the way in which right down to 26.3 million. That’s nonetheless a powerful quantity, nevertheless it’s not “Squid Sport”-strong.
Right here is the place we level out that final week’s viewership might have been impacted by a variety of elements. At the beginning, this previous weekend was NFL’s Wildcard Weekend with 5 playoff video games to eat. The week additionally featured a pair of high-profile NCAA soccer semifinal playoff video games. It’s also doable the L.A. wildfires had some impression by way of potential viewership.
Netflix might be glad we shared these caveats. They received’t like this one: “Squid Sport” Season 1 was simply higher than Season 2. Amongst its flaws, “Squid Sport 2” ends on an annoying cliffhanger. Not that anybody hangs across the workplace water cooler anymore (and even goes to an workplace anymore), however there’s much less to find and fewer of an urgency to find it. The collection will culminate with a 3rd season.
None of this implies “Squid Sport 2” is a flop. It’s not.
In simply 20 days, “Squid Sport 2” already has the third-most views (152.5 million) of any Netflix collection, English-language or in any other case. The primary “Squid Sport” acquired 265.2 million views in its first 91 days; “Wednesday” Season 1 had 252.1 million. In our estimation, it might require fairly a rally for “Squid Sport 2” to maneuver up any greater on the all-time leaderboard. Our unhealthy on that one.
In our protection, the chance was definitely there: Netflix now has roughly 69 million extra international paid subscribers than it did when the primary “Squid Sport” season got here out.