Netflix should feel pretty good right about its decision to renew Bridgerton through season 4, way before season 2 arrived, after the Regency-era romance series continues to set new records for the popular streaming platform.
According to IndieWire, Bridgerton season 2 pulled in 251.7 million hours of viewing time in its first week of availability from March 28 to April 3, which is higher than every other show outside of Squid Game at 571.8 million hours.
As it stands, Bridgerton is on track to become the most-viewed English-language series on Netflix, beating out its predecessor, which previously held the record for a little over a year before Squid Game more than doubled its numbers last year.
Bridgerton is a show based on Julia Quinn's best-selling books that first debuted in 2020. Since then, audiences have swooned over the steamy dynamic between Phoebe Dynevor's Daphne and Regé-Jean Page's Simon, the Duke of Hastings. With Page's departure, the follow-up season shines the spotlight on the relationship between Simone Ashley's Kate Sharma and Jonathan Bailey's Anthony. In the meantime, the mysterious gossip columnist, Lady Whistledown, who is played by Julie Andrews, continues with her ever-judgmental ways.
