Netflix has, for the very first time, published an engagement report that counts the hours viewed for all of its shows and films, revealing not only the streamer’s biggest hits, but also its biggest duds.
According to the lengthy report, which covers the period between January to June 2023 and is available as an Excel file, The Night Agent is, without a doubt, one of Netflix’s most popular and successful shows ever, having racked up over 800 million hours of viewership since its premiere on March 23, 2023.
“While monitoring an emergency line, a vigilant FBI agent answers a call that plunges him into a deadly conspiracy involving a mole at the White House,” reads a description for the series, which stars Gabriel Basso as Peter Sutherland, an FBI agent who works at the White House as a telephone operator for the Night Action division.
Netflix announced that The Night Agent would be getting a second season in March, shortly after the show premiered with record opening weekend viewership, but it looks like a third season may even be on the cards now based on the interest that the streamer is seeing.
“The last week has been a whirlwind as we’ve finally been able to share The Night Agent with the world,” said series creator, executive producer, and showrunner Shawn Ryan at the time. “To see the tremendous reaction to the show has been a great joy and is a credit to our cast, our writers, our directors, our crew and our partners at Sony Pictures Television and Netflix. We couldn’t be any prouder or more excited to get cracking on Season 2 to share the further adventures of Night Action with our newfound fans.”
The second most popular show on Netflix is Ginny & Georgia, the second season of which has drawn over 665 million views, according to the streamer’s report.
“Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy,” reads a description for the comedy-drama that stars Antonia Gentry and Brianne Howey in the titular roles.
Other hits on Netflix include Wednesday (507+ million views), the Addams Family spin-off from Tim Burton, and FUBAR (266+ million views), the action-comedy series with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Leave the World Behind, a new apocalyptic thriller from director Sam Esmail that stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Myha’la, is number one on Netflix at the time of this writing.
Discussion (9 replies)
Join Discussion →I think popularity on netflix is most influenced by how much they are promoting something on their landing page.
My Mum rarely talks to me about movies, but she mentioned how horrible leave the world behind was, so it must have been truly atrocious.
Never heard or seen this ' the night agent' as of yet.
Nor leave the world behind.
My landing page is radically different from my wife's.
All that happened to your mom is the algorithm didn't land a good one for her.
Netflix is greatly customized to the user.
If you dont make your own litttle user, and you arent gonna have a good experience if those whom you share has different taste.
Netflix's rating system is flawed. There is no "this is shit" option. Just "this is not for me". That's useless. if I use it, it will simply not recommend me stuff from the same genre. Just because I dislike a bad movie doesn't mean I'm not interested in the genre.
The landing page sucks, it rarely shows me something I want to see and even then it's usually a new season of something I watched b4.
Also this news blurb could use a rewrite as it is all over the place
That's 3 different metrics for what I assume should be 3 times nr of hours viewwed
So if I break down those metrics.. Each episode being roughly equal to 1 hour... 665 million eyeballs meaning roughly 332 million viewers.. at 507 million views... so... in essence... MOST people watched two episodes... a small subset of those may have watched 3 episodes and that is the BEST NETFLIX has ever done?
Is it yours alone?
Do you rate stuff?
Those are three metrics are not directly connected.
800 million hours viewed just means people have watched that amount of stuff.
665 million eyeballs pertains to the number of users who racked up the hours.
507+ million views I assume is the number of individual content pieces that was viewed.
I know what it means, the excel sheet only talks about hours watched so Ginny and Georgia should be 665 million hours viewed, not eyeballs, same for Wednesday, should be 507+ million hours viewed.
I'm the only user and I rarely rate stuff as I don't see the point with that crappy rating system