Netflix’s The Diplomat is becoming one of the biggest hits on the streaming platform, with its latest season bringing in more than one billion minutes of watch time in a single week.
The political drama, starring Keri Russell, recorded 1.19 billion minutes of viewing between October 19 and 25, according to Nielsen data reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
This made it the most watched original series on streaming during that week.
What makes the numbers even more impressive is that viewers kept coming back after the show’s release.
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All eight episodes of season four, however, arrived on October 15. During its second week, the series saw its watch time grow by 21 percent, rising from 983 million minutes in its first week.
The new season also received a perfect 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, giving it the best reviews of the show’s four seasons so far.
Although the series came second in the overall streaming chart behind From, it still beat several popular shows. Netflix has also shown its confidence in the drama by renewing it for a fifth season on October 29.
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The show has also earned its first Emmy win this year, adding to its growing success.
