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Metro
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Netflix show watched over 46,000,000 times in a week to top global chart
Steve Charnock Published July 9, 2025 3:35pm Updated July 10, 2025 10:13am Link is copied Comments Okay, so we're about to spin you through the top ten most-watched TV shows on Netflix. As ever, we'll present it as a countdown. And we'll give the first nine some space and talk you through them. But we'll be honest - there's only one winner here. Over the past week, Netflix has only been about one thing... Their most successful ever show. Before we get to the jewel in their streaming crown, we'll run through some sports entertainment, a few family dramas, a gritty documentary and a fantasy show straight from the realm of dreams... (Picture: No Ju-han/Netflix) Last Monday's Raw featured all the usual backstage mind games and promos designed to build hype around several rising WWE stars. There were a few standout matches - one competitor returned and made something of an impact, while others mostly teased big upcoming feuds. Plus there was a surprise appearance setting the stage for a major showdown. It's wrestling - you ever love it or hate it. And 2.5m folk loved it last week (Picture: WWE) A gripping new Spanish thriller has stormed into Netflix's global top ten. It's a six-part series that follows a woman who's trapped in a seemingly perfect marriage that hides a dark secret. When an old friend reappears, long-buried truths unravel, spiraling into a rather tense psychological drama filled that's packed full of twists, turns, manipulation and all sorts of suspense. It's an unflinching look at domestic abuse, power dynamics and what it takes to reclaim control of a life. Sound familiar? It's a remake of the British drama series Angela Black, which starred Joanne Froggatt (Picture: Netflix) Season three of Ginny & Georgia leans harder into the drama without losing the chaotic comedic charm that made it a hit. Georgia's past keeps creeping in, Ginny's trying to define herself beyond her mom's shadow and everyone's making messy choices in Wellsbury. It's a little darker, bolder and more emotionally charged than before, with sharper writing and a few genuinely shocking turns. It's hardly surprising that fans have been binging on it (Picture: Netflix) Another Spanish show now. This time think Black Swan meets Elite, but set in a high‑pressure sports academy. Olympo follows Amaia, a driven synchronized swimmer and her fellow athletes at the Pirineos High Performance Center as they chase Olympic dreams - as well as sponsorship - all by any means necessary. The tension ramps up after a teammate collapses, revealing possible doping, secret romances and identity struggles. It's aimed at a mature teen audience, but more than watchable for adults look for something sporty and soapy (Picture: Netflix) You've probably worked out what's number one already, haven't you? It's pretty hard to have ignored the Squid Game talk online and at watercoolers. A third season of the Netflix juggernaut is making quite the impact, so it stands to reason that the first two runs would be popular again. And that's very much the case (Picture: No Ju-han/Netflix) As 2025 sees the 20th anniversary of the still-shocking '7/7' bombings which shook London, Netflix joins the world in paying tribute to those that died and had their lives irreparably altered by the terrorist attack. This sobering four-part documentary series explores the aftermath of the attacks and how UK police embarked on the biggest manhunt in the country's history (Picture: PA/BBC/The Slate Works Ltd) Well, we've all got a pretty good idea what's sitting pretty at the top of this chart. And we've already seen the debut season of Squid Game in this top 10. So it's no giant surprise to see the sophomore season feature too. It's in at number four in the chart, having been watched almost 5 million times last week alone (Picture: No Ju-han/Netflix) It's testament to just how good The Sandman is and how popular it is amongst its fanbase that the recent negative news stories surrounding its writer Neil Gaiman haven't affected its viewing figures. Tom Sturridge returns as Dream. Watch out too for Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Narcos' Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Patton Oswalt as Matthew the Raven and Star Wars' Mark Hamill as Merv Pumpkinhead (Picture: Netflix) Scream writer Kevin Williamson's latest project is proving a hit on the streaming platform. It stars Mindhunter's Holt McCallany as the head of a crumbling North Carolina fishing empire who veers the family into drug-running to save their business. Serious shades of Ozark have nudged people to watch this. And it seems they're glad of it. It's the second-most watched TV show on Netflix of the past week (Picture: Netflix) Well, then. The fact that the first two seasons of this South Korean phenomenon are in the top ten should have been a bit of a giveaway as to what would be topping the charts at the moment. The third outing of Squid Game isn't just the most-watched TV show of the moment, it's smashing records for how many people across the world are tuning in. Over 46 million people watched it last week. More than 100m caught in over the past two weeks too. That equates to a staggering sum total of more than 650 million hours of this season alone being watched worldwide in just shy of a fortnight. These are incredible numbers for an incredible show (Picture: No Ju-han/Netflix)
ABC News
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Sexy Spanish series Olympo brings drama and intrigue to the world of elite young athletes
Spanish TV show Elite garnered many fans for the way each season based itself around a whodunnit murder mystery, all while probing dynamics of gender, class, race and sexuality with a cast of impossibly good-looking high school students. What: An utterly ridiculous soap by the same producers behind Spanish smash hit series Elite. Starring: Nira Oshaia, Clara Galle, María Romanillos, Agustín Della Corte, Nuno Gallego Where: Streaming now on Netflix. Likely to make you feel: Incredulous Olympo transplants the action — with many of the same actors who starred in later seasons of Elite — from a private school into an exclusive High-Performance Centre (HPC) in the Pyrenees. Top-performing athletes are hand-picked and arduously trained with the end goal of qualifying for world championships. "A cage full of sharks, snakes and vultures disguised in perfect bodies," in one character's words, should be a stage primed for the exploration of the same themes as Elite, but with the competitiveness, drive to succeed and rancour dialled to 10. Unfortunately, the show flounders in crucial ways. Eponymous clothing brand Olympo is the shady, morally corrupt entity that rules over the HPC. They have three prestigious sponsorships to hand out and every athlete is vying for them. Olympo is the inscrutable central antagonist of the show, but far too poorly run and comical to truly inspire fear. Zoe (Nira Oshaia) is our initial window into this world. Carrying repressed memories of a traumatic accident involving her best friend, Zoe is a heptathlete who was accepted into HPC for her latent athletic abilities. Supposedly more chill and well-adjusted than her soon-to-be peers, Zoe is immediately confronted by the bitchiness and tight-knit insularity of the athletes. The only one to extend any generosity to her is Nuria (María Romanillos), a kind synchronised swimmer who must contend with the ultra-competitiveness of her teammate and best friend Amaia (Clara Galle). This noxious dynamic culminates in Amaia challenging Nuria to 10 flying leg spins — a big deal in the world of synchronised swimming — which causes her to almost drown. It's arguably a high point of tension and excitement before the series devolves. Elite was a mystery centred on a dead body, but no-one dies in Olympo. Rather, the mystery revolves around one of the most maligned aspects of elite sport: doping. There's an endemic performance-enhancing drug problem at the HPC and Amaia is convinced Nuria has been caught up in it. She spends the rest of the season doggedly trying to uncover the extent of the scandal, making many enemies in the process — not least of all, Olympo. Parallel storylines start to emerge. Star rugby captain Roque (real-life rugby player Agustín Della Corte) is openly gay and challenges the homophobia of a sport that prides itself on its toxic masculinity. The curious muteness of Zoe's fellow heptathlete Renata (Andy Duato) masks the fact that she's undergoing treatment for an unspecified condition. Amaia's boyfriend Cristian (Nuno Gallego) is kicked off the rugby team for underperforming but returns seemingly a few days later looking extremely ripped, and catches the eye of Amaia's teammate Fatima (Najwa Khliwa). The setting of the HPC may have been a captivating one if it was believable in the slightest. No-one, least of all the recalcitrant Zoe, is ever pictured training. The pressure of the impossible expectations placed on these budding athletes may have been more plausible if we were ever gifted a glimpse of their rigorous training schedules and difficult coaches. As it is, all we witness them doing is shirking training, partying, drinking and having sex. Where Elite excelled in depicting the shifting loyalties and incestuousness of a friendship group, Olympo tries to do the same to varying results. Characterisation is inconsistent at best, unfathomable at worst. Friends betray friends without reason, people hook up without the slightest demonstration of prior rapport or chemistry, one-dimensionally evil characters are devoid of nuance or complexity, plot holes abound. Nothing makes sense, even by the show's own rules. The antidote to this all is the incredibly well-formed character of Amaia, who buckles under the pressure of a cruelly demanding mother — a former synchronised swimmer herself — and illustrates the difficulty in forming friendships with people who are first and foremost your competitors. Her athleticism is seamlessly weaved into her everyday being in a way that is missing with the others. We see her effortlessly do the splits while speaking on the phone, or contort herself into positions that would be impossible for mere mortals as she does her morning stretches. Our first glimpse of her as she treads water at the bottom of a pool carrying 6kg weights in both hands is stupefying. The selection of sports spotlighted in Olympo is interesting in and of itself. Never have the stakes in synchronised swimming felt so high — Olympo has convinced me of the sheer mastery involved in a way I hadn't comprehended before. Cycling and heptathlons are arguably the less flashy sports of the continuum, but here they are front and centre. Olympo has made headlines for its graphic depictions of sex and for good reason. If you like to watch incredibly toned, sculpted people in various states of undress, this is the show for you. There are corny slow-motion shots of athletes sailing over hurdles, leaping in the air for balls, twisted upside down as they pirouette underwater. There are rippling muscles, beads of sweat rolling down exceedingly chiselled bodies, and the suggestion of a blow-job in a rugby formation. Hammy lines to the effect of "you have to ask yourself how far you're willing to go" further compound the melodrama. It's all extremely silly. At times, Olympo comes close to illuminating the thornier aspects of sport and the way athletes are demonised for transphobic reasons, harking back to the controversy that engulfed Imane Khelif. A line that Nuria delivers towards the end — "When has sport ever been fair?" — could've been the central thesis of the show if it had further delved into the inequities built into competitive sports. But where Olympo is most gripping is in the increasingly complex web of deceit, lies and compromises the junior athletes find themselves embroiled in. This entire silly season is almost worth watching for the way it thoroughly sticks the landing with a twist ending that I did not think it was capable of.
UPI
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
'Squid Game' Season 3 dominates global Netflix charts
SEOUL, July 2 (UPI) -- The third and final season of South Korean smash hit Squid Game topped Netflix's global charts and broke streaming records, the platform said Wednesday. The dystopian social satire garnered 60.1 million views in its first three days -- a record number -- and topped the streaming charts for the week of June 23-29. Season 3 outpaced its nearest competitor, the Spanish series Olympo, by nearly a tenfold margin. Squid Game Season 3 ranked No. 1 in all 93 countries where Netflix keeps top 10 lists, the streamer said in a press release, making it the first show to achieve the distinction in its debut week. The renewed interest in the series also brought its two previous seasons back onto the top 10 chart, with Season 2 appearing at No. 3 and Season 1 placing at No. 6. The original season introduced the world to protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and his quest to survive a deadly series of children's games for a massive cash prize. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk's series became a global phenomenon and remains Netflix's most-viewed show of all time. Season 3's critical response has been generally positive, if more muted than the debut season. UPI's Fred Topel said the final six-episode arc is "still loaded with surprises" as it brings the saga of Gi-hun and the deadly game to its conclusion. Netflix has capitalized on the show's popularity with commercial tie-ins and live events worldwide. In Seoul, nearly 40,000 people attended a parade and fan event on Saturday, with the show's iconic pink guards and its giant doll Young-hee marching past downtown's Gwanghwamun Square. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun and cast members from all three seasons appeared at an outdoor festival that served as a final celebration of Squid Game.
Malay Mail
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Malay Mail
‘Squid Game' ends with a bang: Season 3 shatters Netflix records with 60 million views despite mixed reviews, entire franchise storms Top 10
SEOUL, July 2 — Squid Game Season 3 dominated Netflix's weekly charts by a significant margin, Yonhap news agency reported the streaming platform said Wednesday. The third and final season of the Korean original show claimed the top spot of Netflix's non-English chart, drawing a staggering 60 million views during the June 23 to 29 period. The season's viewership was nearly 10 times that of its closest competitor, the Spanish series Olympo. The latest season's immense popularity also sparked renewed interest in the entire saga. Season 2 and Season 1 entered the chart at No. 3 and No. 6, respectively. The phenomenon wasn't limited to non-English shows. Squid Game Season 3's viewership single-handedly surpassed the 34.5 million combined total of all top 10 English-language series. It towered over the leading English show, The Waterfront, which captured 11.6 million views. The final six episodes, released last Friday, brought the global acclaimed story of Gi-hun and the deadly competition to its dramatic conclusion. — Bernama-Yonhap
Online Citizen
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Online Citizen
‘Squid Game' Season 3 dominates Netflix charts with record-breaking global viewership
'Squid Game' Season 3 has cemented its place in streaming history, dominating Netflix's global charts with unprecedented viewership figures. According to an announcement by Netflix on Wednesday, the third and final season of the Korean original series drew an astounding 60 million views from 23 to 29 June 2025. This impressive figure firmly secured its position atop Netflix's non-English chart, surpassing its nearest rival by nearly tenfold. The Spanish series 'Olympo' garnered only a fraction of the views, highlighting the unmatched popularity of 'Squid Game.' The surge in interest for Season 3 also prompted viewers to revisit earlier seasons. Season 2 climbed to third place, while Season 1 re-entered the chart at sixth place during the same period. This renewed attention underscores the series' enduring appeal and cultural impact. Remarkably, the latest season's viewership exceeded the combined total of all top 10 English-language shows, which collectively drew 34.5 million views. The leading English series, 'The Waterfront,' managed only 11.6 million views in comparison. 'Squid Game' has consistently drawn global attention since its debut in 2021, captivating audiences with its intense depiction of desperate individuals competing in deadly games for a cash prize. The final season brought this narrative to a dramatic conclusion, focusing on the journey of the main character, Gi-hun, and the ultimate resolution of the high-stakes competition. The third season comprises six episodes, all released globally on Friday, 27 June 2025. Fans eagerly awaited the finale, which promised to tie up complex storylines and reveal the fate of central characters. Early reactions have praised the season for its emotional depth and gripping suspense. With the conclusion of Season 3, the creators have signalled that no further seasons are planned. However, speculation about possible spin-offs or related projects continues among fans and industry insiders.
