This Netflix Series Just Knocked ‘Wednesday’ Out of Streaming’s Top Spot with its Season 2 Debut

Another Netflix blockbuster has knocked the reigning champion off its pedestal. According to newly-released Nielsen streaming numbers, the 2.52 billion minutes of viewership that Ginny & Georgia earned in its second season during the first week of 2023, from January 2nd-8th, is remarkable when you consider episodes were only released on the 5th. This pushed Wednesday to #3 spot for that week with 1.03 billion minutes viewed, cementing this Netflix success story in viewers’ hearts and minds everywhere!

Following closely behind was Netflix’s Kaleidoscope, a heist thriller that encourages viewers to watch its episodes in any order before the riveting finale. This series has earned 1.64 billion minutes of viewing since premiering on December 31st!

What is Ginny & Georgia about?

Ginny & Georgia is a charming series about the complicated relationship between Ginny Miller, an incredibly mature fifteen-year-old and her thirty-year-old mother Georgia. They settle down in the picturesque town of Wellsbury to give their children, Austin and Ginny a better life than they had experienced before. An all-star cast including Brianne Howey, Antonio Gentry, Diesel La Torraca, Jennifer Robertson , Felix Mallard , Sara Waisglass , Scott Porter , Raymond Ablack  Katie Douglas and Chelsea Clark portrays this heartfelt family drama filled with unexpected twists that will captivate you until the very end!

“You know what’s great? Netflix was really — I don’t want to say hands off — they were really trusting of us with the story this season,” creator Sarah Lampert explained in a recent interview with Deadline. “Which was wonderful because we got to explore different modes, like episode eight and nine and the Tarantino-esque format of that, doing weird things, and the whole plot of Season 2.”

“My favorite thing about the show is that it is always evolving and changing, and because we touch on so many different tones within the show, we really get to sink into whichever tone we want to at the moment. So there’s a lot of freedom there. I love surprising people, so I hope that that cliffhanger at the end of Episode 10 Season 2 was a big surprise, that’s what we were going for. That being said, no, there’s been no talks with Netflix about Season 3. They’re very regimented about how they do things.”

“So there’s very much a strategy in place where I think we’ll drop it, and then we have to wait to see how it does and if we’re going to see Season 3 but I certainly hope we do because it’s going to be a wild ride.”

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