As the follow-up to one of Netflix's biggest shows ever, the second season of Bridgerton had a lot to live up to. Luckily, the Shonda Rhimes-produced show was more than up for the challenges. According to a Forbes report, Bridgerton season 2 just set a new record for Netflix after audiences racked up a total of 193 million viewing hours in just three days from March 25 to March 27.
The period drama's weekend total was the most successful opening weekend of an English-language series on the streaming platform. It appears that season 2's intense love triangle between the Sharma sisters and Anthony is much more gripping as it is now on track to beat the first season's record of Netflix's most-watched show in its first month, when audiences combined for a total of 625 million hours in 2020.
2020 was understandably a big year for Netflix as two originals surpassed the 600 million mark for hours watched within the first 28 days for the first time. After Money Heist: Part 4 set the tone earlier in the year with 619 million hours viewed, Bridgerton's first season beat it by a couple of million before the year ended. However, Squid Game was an even larger hit as the South Korean TV series topped the charts for months, totaling 1.6 billion hours viewed.
