Pictured: Obliterated, Family Switch, Sweet Home S2 / Netflix
Welcome to your weekly rundown of the largest tales from Netflix’s prime 10 hourly figures drop for the week ending December third, 2023. This week we’ll be protecting a bunch of various Netflix exhibits and films. This week, we’ll cowl Family Switch, Obliterated, Sweet Home, Criminal Code, Squid Game: The Challenge, and a basic have a look at South Korean dramas.
If you missed out prime 10 report from final week, we lined Squid Game: The Challenge, Leo, and Last Call in Istanbul. This submit is the English equal to a submit on the Substack Netflix n Chiffres.
Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours seen from November twenty seventh, 2023 to December third, 2023, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or CVE, expressed in hundreds of thousands. That means we divide the hours seen introduced by Netflix by the runtime of movies or sequence. It permits for higher comparisons between movies and sequence, however it’s not an viewers metric. It is the minimal variety of viewings in the event that they have been all full from the primary second to the final of the movie or season.
1. Family Switch is doing nice however not loopy nice.
You would assume {that a} vacation comedy involving physique swapping and Jennifer Garner can be an enormous hit. You wouldn’t be fully flawed as Family Switch garner-ed (pun supposed) 22.2M CVEs over its first 4 days on the platform.
Is that one of the best launch for a Netflix vacation movie? No, as a result of Falling for Christmas with Lindsay Lohan continues to be the reigning champion, however it’s second, simply forward of The Noel Diary.
So, it was a reasonably good launch, all issues thought of. We will see if the vacation season is carrying it till the tip of the yr.
2. Obliterated is doing nice too
I don’t know if you happen to had any expectations for the opening weekend of Obliterated, the raunchy action-comedy sequence from the creators of Cobra Kai, however mine have been fairly low.
It seems that Obliterated was not wholly destroyed by the competitors, because it launched with 7M CVEs over its first 4 days. That’s low however not as little as I believed it might be, and if we evaluate that launch to the opposite launches of the US Netflix sequence of the yr, we could be cautiously optimistic a few renewal for a second season.
Green is for the renewed sequence; crimson is for the canceled sequence. So it’s trending in direction of the underside finish of the renewed sequence (or the upper finish of the canceled sequence if you happen to’re that sort of particular person).
3. Sweet Home comes again to fairly an empty home of followers.
When Sweet Home debuted three years in the past, Netflix gave it the “datecdote” therapy, mentioning that 22 million accounts began the primary season over its first 28 days.
Three years later, the second season of the South Korean present is lastly right here, and its launch weekend is kind of low, with solely 2.5M CVEs over its first three days, just below what D.P. season 2 bought when it got here again.
We already talked about a bunch of occasions that the extra time there’s between seasons, the upper the decay between seasons seems to be in order that simply is likely to be one other instance of that.
Season 3 is already shot and will arrive in Summer 2024, so the results of its second season may not matter a lot now, however a renewal past the third season already appears impossible.
4. Criminal Code will get renewed and it’s no shock as to why
Hit Brazilian sequence Criminal Code has been renewed, simply three weeks after its premiere, and a have a look at the numbers explains why that renewal was swift. After 14 days, it’s at present the third most-watched Netflix Latin American sequence launched since 2021, behind Fake Profile and Palpito, each of which have been renewed for a number of seasons.
5. Squid Game: The Challenge continues to soar.
Analyzing CVE numbers for weekly launched exhibits just isn’t as easy as it may be for binge-released exhibits, however if you happen to follow a devoted methodology, it may be performed.
Squid Game: The Challenge is an excellent coaching area, because the weekly launched present continues to be on the Top of the Top 10 this week. So far, and per my very personal methodology, the present is simply behind the second season of Love is Blind when it comes to viewership, with a median of 23.5M CVEs per weekly batch of episodes.
Season 2 of Love is Blind represents the height for that exact present, so it’s not unhealthy to this point. We can have extra to say subsequent week as the ultimate episode is launched, enabling us to have an end-of-release window CVE quantity that we are able to evaluate.
6. What are the largest South Korean dramas of the yr to this point?
As Strong Girl Nam-Soon, Castaway Diva and My Demon occupy three locations within the worldwide Top 10 this week, it is likely to be good to have a look at how weekly launched South Korean dramas are faring this yr to this point.
Now, there are a number of caveats:
- Weekly launched South Korean dramas are normally acquisitions by Netflix for your entire world, aside from South Korea, and their launch schedule could be completely different relying on the a part of the world.
- The US and Asia are inclined to have them mainly on the similar time of their broadcast in South Korea while another elements of the world get them a number of weeks after.
But let’s check out the primary South Korean exhibits on Netflix in 2023, and we are able to see that King the Land is to this point the primary weekly launched South Korean present of the yr on Netflix.
Strong Girl Nam-Soon is third, whereas My Demon and Castaway Diva are much less of a draw.
That’s all for this week; be at liberty to tell us what you assume within the feedback under.