Michelle Yeoh as Mama Sun in The Brothers Sun – Picture: Michael Desmond/Netflix
Netflix kickstarted the 12 months with a brand new motion comedy sequence headlined by Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh that follows a household deeply embedded in crime. Will The Brothers Sun be again for a season 2, although? The reply isn’t any with the present being formally canceled in March 2024.
Filmed over 4 months, the brand new sequence got here from Brad Falchuk, greatest recognized for collaborating with Ryan Murphy on a number of reveals. This serves as his first important breakaway, and the present was one of many first important TV releases of 2024 for Netflix, launching on January 4th, 2024.
The Brothers Sun has been a success with critics, with an 85% RottenTomatoes rating on the time of publishing, permitting it to get a Certified Fresh ranking. Audience scores are equally spectacular, with a 93% on RT and seven.7/10 on IMDb.
The Brothers Sun isn’t at present renewed for a season 2
Official Renewal Status: Canceled
Our Renewal Prediction: Leaning Cancelation.
Shortly after updating our renewal predicting to leaning cancelation, Deadline confirmed that the sequence wouldn’t return late on Friday evening on March 1st. All the trades then echoed the cancelations however didn’t dive into why the present bought canceled.
As we coated in our information to renewal selections at Netflix, the wanting it’s that the present wants to fulfill or exceed sure expectations on Netflix’s personal inside metrics, that are then in contrast in opposition to the price of a second season.
Ahead of the cancelation, individuals concerned with the present had been optimistic concerning the prospect of future seasons. Speaking to Digital Spy, Sam Song Li informed the outlet, “I think everybody on The Brothers Sun team absolutely thinks that there’s more to tell,” including, “Luckily, it’s not a limited series, so there is potential for future seasons.”
How nicely is The Brothers Sun acting on Netflix up to now?
We can look into how nicely the present carried out on the streaming service utilizing numerous sources.
Let’s start with Netflix’s high 10 information, launched each Tuesday. Releasing the Thursday signifies that in week 1, it certified for 4 days within the high 10s, the place it ranked fifth on the TV English aspect, getting 30.2M hours watched or 4.1M views. The present spent 5 weeks within the world high 10s, choosing up 126.10 million hours watched or 17.20 million accomplished viewing equivalents. Here’s how that breaks down week-to-week:
| Week Period | Hours Viewed | Views / CVE | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December thirty first, 2023 to January seventh, 2024 | 30,200,000 | 4,100,000 | 5 | 1 |
| January seventh, 2024 to January 14th, 2024 | 50,500,000 (+67%) | 6,900,000 | 2 | 2 |
| January 14th, 2024 to January twenty first, 2024 | 19,700,000 (-61%) | 2,700,000 | 5 | 3 |
| January twenty first, 2024 to January twenty eighth, 2024 | 14,200,000 (-28%) | 1,900,000 | 6 | 4 |
| January twenty eighth, 2024 to February 4th, 2024 | 11,500,000 (-19%) | 1,600,000 | 7 | 5 |
Few notable purple flags right here. That’s not a stable first-week efficiency regardless of rising 67% in week 2. Another purple signal is that the viewing hours dropped 61% in week 3. Anything over 50% is often a purple flag, however when the hours had been that low within the first place. That isn’t a great signal.
Let’s stack that up with different titles utilizing the views (or, as we check with it, accomplished viewing equivalents) and see the way it’s evaluating in its first week.
When in comparison with different debut reveals launched on a Thursday, we are able to see that the present falls very a lot in the direction of the underside of the pack, getting barely extra viewership than Survival of the Thickest and Unstable however lower than Obliterated (additionally ready for a season 2 renewal) and My Life with the Walter Boys.
Moving over to twenty-eight days, right here’s how the present stacks up in opposition to different Netflix sequence, with bars in inexperienced being renewed titles and people in purple being canceled.
Data from FlixPatrol permits us to see how sticky the present was within the Netflix high 10s and the place it carried out greatest. The graph under reveals that the present peaked because the third largest present on Netflix six days after launch and shortly started dropping off. A month and a half after its launch, the present had left Netflix’s high 10s altogether. From the heatmap, you may see the present carried out greatest within the US, France, South Africa, Portugal, Pakistan, and a few Asian territories.
Picture: FlixPatrol
How about taking a look at exterior alerts on efficiency?
The YouTube trailer for the present carried out nicely for the sequence, with simply over 2M views, which has typically been cited as indicative of efficiency on Netflix.
TvStats.com has the present peaking because the third largest TV present between January sixth and January seventh and is now at quantity 8 on the time of publishing. It offers the sequence a “High Engagement” rating.
Google Trends suggests the present is on the come down after per week on the platform already, with curiosity on the search engine dwarfed by Fool Me Once however extra akin to the likes of My Life with the Walter Boys and Obliterated.
Google traits information for The Brothers Sun, Fool Me Once, My Life with the Walter Boys, and Obliterated.
What to Expect From The Brothers Sun Season 2
Warning: Spoilers under – don’t learn when you haven’t watched all eight episodes.
Picture: Netflix
By the tip of episode 8, titled Protect the Family, issues had come to a head with the Sun household, with Charles having acquired the order to kill his younger brother, however he in the end decides to face along with his mom and Bruce. With the following shootout, Bruce then confronts Big Sun, who offers him the chance to betray his household and be a part of the household gang, however he, too, stands by his sibling and shoots Big Sun however not fatally.
The ending of the episode sees Big Sun in hospital with insulin being slowly pumped into him, possible resulting in his demise as he’s been incorrectly marked as diabetic, leaving Eileen because the possible successor to the throne. She decides to take the chance and broadcasts that she’ll be headed to Taiwan to take the reigns of the household enterprise.
The finish sees Charles and June becoming a member of Eileen and setting the stage for no matter season 2 will maintain.
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