“Bridgerton” has returned to first place on the Netflix Top 10 after the debut of Season 3 Part 2. The season hit 28 million views in the final four episodes’ first four days of availability.
Viewership of earlier episodes through the entire week of June 10-16 were also accounted for in that total, but were Netflix to separate views of Parts 1 and 2, the number would likely be even higher. Views are calculated by dividing the total number of hours streamed by a title’s runtime. Therefore, even though the majority of the season’s 223.3 million viewing hours were certainly concentrated on the final four episodes, they were divided by the season’s full eight-hour length, rather than its latter few hours alone.
Season 3 has been a massive success for Netflix, having opened with 45.1 million views — “Bridgerton’s” best-ever launch. By the June 3-9 viewing window, less than one month after its May 27 debut, the season had already reached a total of 84 million views, which would have landed it the No. 10 spot on Netflix’s list of its most popular English-language series of all time if it weren’t rendered ineligible by the incoming four episodes. The streamer calculates that chart based on total views in each title’s first 91 days of streaming, and though Season 3’s viewership total has reset since the debut of Part 2, it’s still sure to make the chart soon. Accounting for all Season 3 viewership and the season’s full eight-hour length, it has now reached a total of 68.7 million views — less than 20 million below “Baby Reindeer,” the current No. 1 title.
Once again, Season 3 also drove viewership to “Bridgerton’s” previous seasons: Season 1 was the sixth-most-watched title of the week with 2.7 million views and Season 2 was No. 9 with 2.3 million views.
