All Of Us Are Dead Is 2nd K-Drama After Squid Game To Top Netflix Charts

All Of Us Are Dead becomes the #1 most-watched series on Netflix this week, with global users watching a total of 124.69 million hours.

we are all dead has become the second Korean-language series to reach #1 on the Netflix weekly charts. Netflix first scored a major South Korean hit with the dystopian thriller Squid Game, which followed a group of adults who gathered to play a series of deadly children’s games as they competed for a huge payout. The series premiered on September 17, 2021 and became an instant success, eventually becoming the number 1 most-watched television series on Netflix ever. It was such a hit that fans tried to dress up as Squid Game Halloween attendees caused Vans’ white slip-on sales to skyrocket 7,800% last October.

we are all dead is now the latest South Korean darling on the streaming platform. Created by Lee Jae-kyoo, Chun Sung-il and Kim Nam-su, the show is based on the 2009 webtoon Now at our school and premiered season 1 with 12 episodes on January 28, 2022. The series, starring Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Cho Yi-hyun, Park Solomon, Yoo In-soo, Lee Yoo-mi and Im Jae-hyuk, follows a group of high school students trying to survive a zombie apocalypse.

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Per Deadline, we are all dead reached #1 on Netflix’s weekly streaming charts in just 7 days, just a few months later Squid Game rose to the top in 4 days. Worldwide, the series has been watched 124.69 million hours this week, compared to the #1 English-language series Ozark, which has accumulated 96.34 million hours. This is still not enough to get it on the all-time charts, but if it hits 106 million more hours of viewing in the next 3 weeks, it will surpass the series that is currently at the #10 position, the Spanish telenovela The Queen of the Stream season 2.

Netflix has been creating content for international audiences for years, including hit series such as the Spanish crime drama money robbery and the Swedish teen show Young Royals. However, that content is mostly sunk in its own territory and is successful in non-domestic streaming markets like the new Bollywood movie Walk Lapeta, which started streaming yesterday but hasn’t made a splash on the US side of the service. However, the rapid succession of these two South Korean series proves that Netflix’s power to bring international content to a truly global audience is only growing.

we are all dead rises more slowly than its predecessor, but it spells good things for the success of future K-dramas in the international market, especially in the U.S. Historically, mainstream American audiences only occasionally embrace foreign pop culture from certain areas for short periods without necessarily followed. by a subsequent rise in long-term interest rates. However, South Korea has become such a huge force in entertainment that it can prove eternally irresistible.

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Source: Deadline

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