The 154,970,000 hours Outer Banks scored on opening week translated into 17.6 million equivalent complete viewings. Pretty impressive and up from the 12.3 million the second season opened with nearly two years ago. The caveat being this season had an extra day of viewing to add in thanks to the Thursday vs Friday release date. Still impressive and it looks like they made a smart call to renew this for a 4th season in advance of the 3rd season getting released. I’m expecting a small dip next week but still good numbers. YA shows tend to be front loaded unless they are Stranger Things or Wednesday.

The other big success of the week was the Murdaugh Murders docuseries. It got 17 million and just got pipped by Outer Banks in equivalent complete viewings but it is still a big hit for Netflix!

Triptych also had a good debut week. The Spanish language thriller opened to 9 million. That is the best opening week for a non-English show so far in 2023 and the third best weekly numbers for non-English shows in general for 2023 behind the second week of The Glory and the second week of The Snow Girl.

The other debut show was Drive To Survive s5. It opened to a modest 3.9 million. That pipped the 2.9 million opening of Full Swing (which dipped out of the charts after a single week).

Perfect Match gets good engagement in viewing hours but has been a modest performer in equivalent complete viewings with 2.2 million on opening week and 3.6 million this week.

Elsewhere Lidia Poet got 4.6 million, Ganglands s2 got 3.7 million, Red Rose got 3.7 million second weeks.

You s4 got a 6.8 million (-57%) third week. A bad drop but low runtime shows tend to burnout fast. It is already at 45 million though 3 weeks and should land about 48-49 million over 4 weeks. That will be a bit down on the low 50s the third season achieved but the drop is not problematic and the show is still a hit.

Pretty much nothing else worth noting except the fact that The Upshaws Part 3 has completely failed to chart on opening weekend and is on target to be a rare US original that failed to enter the charts at all! Expect the 4th part to be the last for the show.

The big shows next week are Sex/Life s2 and Wrong Side of the Tracks s2. Both were solid performers in their first season so it will be interesting to see if they can hold up in their second seasons.