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Say what you’ll about The Witcher and all the tailored works surrounding Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, in addition to the casting selections within the Netflix present, however the numbers don’t lie – Netflix’s The Night time Agent has turned out to be a extra in style viewing choice than the (for now) Henry Cavill-led fantasy collection.
Information that’s are available from Netflix’s most recent High 10 rankings revealed that The Night time Agent proved to be extra broadly watched than The Witcher, when evaluating the primary 28 days the reveals spent on the streaming service. The primary season of The Witcher had a commendable 541 million hours seen in its first month, whereas The Night time Agent’s first run of episodes drew in over 605.6 million. The difference of the Matthew Quirk novel additionally leapfrogged Stranger Issues 3, and Lucifer season 5.
Granted, there are extra variables at play than what’s at face worth – as an illustration, Netflix was nonetheless in its late phases of constant development when The Witcher had first launched again in 2019, so chances are high there have been fewer subscribers on the platform general on the time. Nonetheless, the numbers are what they’re.
For these which might be curious, essentially the most profitable first month for any TV present to ever land on Netflix is Stranger Issues 4, with a whopping 1.3 billion hours seen. It’s adopted by the absurdly spectacular debut season of Wednesday, then the extraordinarily controversial Dahmer: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. All three of those reveals landed final 12 months.
Whereas we anxiously await Henry Cavill’s remaining season because the titular character in The Witcher earlier than Liam Hemsworth steps in for season 4, we are able to’t assist however really feel prefer it’s not going to have the ability to dethrone any of the highest present debuts which might be at the moment within the streaming platform’s debut chart.