You probably do n’t require official confirmation fromNetflixto trust that a lot of people watchedBridgertonwhen it debut over the 2020 holiday season . Social media was rife with reference of the Shonda Rhimes serial and its stars ; and there ’s a good chance it come up in some of your own conversation , too .
What youwouldneed Netflix to weigh in on is exactly howBridgertonmeasured up against other buzzy original , fromStranger ThingstoMoney Heist . And , asVarietyreports , the streaming behemoth just did . At Vox Media ’s Code Conference this workweek , Netflix ’s master content officer and co - CEO Ted Sarandos revealed a heretofore unsung inclination of the most - watchedoriginal seriesand movies , ranked by entire take in hours in the first 28 days after each programme ’s premiere .
For TV , Bridgerton ’s inaugural season total out on top with a 28 - day total viewing time of 625 million hour , a solid 6 million hr ahead of part four ofMoney Heist . Money Heistwasn’t the only series with a later season that outperformed earlier ones . Season 3 ofStranger Thingsclocked 582 million hours , landing it in third post ; season 2 came in 8th , and the first time of year did n’t chart at all.13 Reasons WhyandYoualso had sophomore season that outpaced their first installment .
On the movie side , no other Netflix original has pull off to unseat the Sandra Bullock - led thrillerBird Box(2018 ) , which amassed 282 viewing hours in its first 28 days . Its close competition was 2020’sExtraction , star Chris Hemsworth , which came in second place with 231 million hours . On the listing of most - watched movies based on the identification number of Netflix history that pour at least two minute of the programme in the first 28 days , ExtractionandBird Box ’s positions were flipped .
See the full lists of movie and show — and their impressive hour count — below .
Netflix Original Series
Netflix Original Movies
[ h / tVariety ]
