Surprise! Squid Game wasn't #1
And Oscars eye multliple hosts
What to know:
Squid Game wasn’t 2021’s most-watched streaming show, that’d be Lucifer… Wait, what!? According to Nielsen, people spent 18.3 billion minutes streaming Lucifer on Netflix. Squid Game came in second with 16.4 billion minutes. So why didn’t Netflix tell us this? Well, Netflix only likes to share data for new seasons — but apparently A LOT of people spent time watching old seasons of Lucifer to catch up before this year’s series finale. That said, it sure didn’t seem like Lucifer was a massive phenomenon in 2021. There’s still so much we don’t know about streaming numbers. 😈
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