Will “The Glory” be the second “Squid Game”?

 

KakaoTalk_20230405_101754685_01The momentum of the online video service (OTT) Netflix series “The Glory” Part 2 is alarming. According to Netflix’s official website “Netflix Top 10″ on the 15th, Part 2 of “The Glory” recorded 124.46 million viewing hours in the first week of its release, ranking first in the non-English-speaking TV (TV) category. It is overwhelmingly higher than the 7,581 hours of “All About You” season 4, which ranked first in the English-speaking TV category, making it the overall No. 1 record in all languages.Netflix Top 10, which discloses the weekly ranking of viewing hours, announced the tally from the 6th to the 12th of the second week of this month, and “The Glory” is the viewing time recorded in just three days after it was released on the 10th. “Everything About You” was released a day earlier on the 9th.

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According to the global OTT ranking aggregation site “Flix Patrol,” Part 2 of “The Glory” ranked first in the Netflix TV category worldwide on the 13th, three days after its release. It ranked third the day after its release and second the next day, followed by No. 1 in three days. According to the ranking by country, it ranked first in 26 countries the day after its release, 38 countries on the 13th three days later, and 42 countries on the 14th. “Squid Game,” which hit the world, topped the TV category on the 24th, a week after its release on September 17, 2021.In order to gain global popularity like <Squid Game>, the response must be great not only in non-English but also in English. “The Glory” seems to be spreading to the English-speaking world, which began in Asia, South America, and the Middle East shortly after its release. It ranked first in Canada on the 14th, and third and fourth in the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively. It is a revenge play about school violence by Korean teenagers, and there are many actual cases of being in trouble as famous celebrities or celebrities. Audition program winners and idol stars who were in the midst of popularity and attention were frequently expelled and disappeared due to social media revelations and testimonies. In fact, Korea is becoming a serious problem with bullying, extorting money, and even sexual slavery through group composition in school life, and this drama composition is close to a real revelation.

jennifer kim
Asia Journal