suitthe legal drama that starred an ensemble cast including Meghan Markle, is suddenly starting to set viewership records, years after it ended.
The cable series, which ended in 2019 after nine seasons, is streaming on Netflix and Peacock and has found a whole new audience. I figured Nielsen Weekly streaming rankings for weeks and it’s the most watched title ever received by a streaming service.
This has been increasing since June 17, when the show debuted on Netflix. Two weeks later, it set a record for the most earned streaming titles, with over 3 billion minutes watched per week. rose from there. It is now the 13th most watched program by total viewership for a streaming title in a week.
so what suit?
Created and written by Aaron Korsh, the show ran on USA Network from 2011 to 2019. Set at a New York City law firm, Mike Ross (played by Patrick J. Adams) uses his photographic memory to talk his way into a job as an assistant to alongside an experienced lawyer, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), despite not having a law degree. Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman) played an unscrupulous partner, Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) managing partner, while Markle played an irrational assistant attorney named Rachel Zane (who later married Mike), and Sarah Rafferty was a legal secretary who became steady partner Donna. Paulsen (who later married Harvey). Wendell Pierce, Dolly Hill, and Katherine Heigl also starred in the show, which ran 130 episodes in total, and dealt with legal issues as well as corporate politics and personal drama.
when it first appeared, diverse Notice that suit, which was filmed in Canada, was “a bit darker than most USA fare.” He described Mike Adams as “a brilliant hero whose beautiful mind encourages him to try and work his way through an associate position at a major law firm”, but the outlet felt the show had “shortcomings”. However, he was greatly loved, in Metacritic, based on 29 “generally favorable reviews”. she has 90% approval rate On rotten tomatoes. It initially averaged 4.28 million viewers and ended with just under 1 million loyal fans. By then, the characters of Adams and Markle (in Season 7) had departed. occasional, Pearsonwhich appeared after the seventh season and centered around the character of Torres, was canceled in 2019 (another character about Louis Hoffman was also considered).
Why does everyone seem to be watching it?
Good, a lot of people. In a very strange summer in Hollywood – with WGA screenwriters and amazing SAG-AFTRA actors – the show has found its way to Netflix. By the week of June 26-July 2, she set her first record, Per Deadline, for the most-streamed earned title—with a 3.1. one billion minutes of viewing per week. Between July 10 and 16, it broke its own record, earning 3.69 billion minutes on streaming services.
by port, suit More than 12.8 billion minutes watched were recorded across Netflix and Peacock in four weeks, from June 19th to July 16th. (Only originals are broadcast – incl Stranger Things, Wed And Ozark – The weeks were in better numbers.) The first four seasons of the show each ranked in between Most watched on Netflix are 10 TV and movies in countries around the world.
Peacock — which, like USA, is owned by NBCUniversal — has the exclusive rights to season nine, meanwhile, the pilot available on Netflix is several minutes longer than the one airing on Peacock.
Its writers and producers are as shocked as everyone else
Gene Klein, who produced the show’s nine seasons, admitted that TVLine that he was “surprised” by the ratings boom, admitting to exchanging texts with the show’s creator, Cyrus, saying “Holy damn!” He said, “Obviously, I had a feeling when I found out it was coming to Netflix (that) it would probably get another wave of viewing and that sort of thing, but I didn’t think that was going to happen.” Crediting the combination of a great show with “the power of Netflix,” Klein said it’s gratifying that “people are sticking with it,” with viewership growing. As for whether there is a possibility of a reboot or a reunion, he said, “So far, nothing that we’re aware of,” but added that he “expects a call at some point,” at a time when everything appears to have been reconsidered or revamped. .
Flow success suit It’s time for Hollywood strikes
One of the things the writers and actors are fighting for is a better stream of streaming leftovers, because streaming — like Netflix — has boomed since the last contract negotiation. To reiterate: In four weeks, people streamed 12.8 billion minutes of that one show.
ex one suit The writer, Ethan Drogen, wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times in which he talked about how although his previous show had become an “unprecedented success”, he had not seen any “windfall”. He earned $259.71 last quarter in residual flow for “Identity crisis,” the suit Episode books. Drogin said NBC Universal pushed the original six suit The writers paid less than $3,000 in the last quarter to air the episode they wrote on two platforms.
“Yes, it’s gratifying that the show has found a new and bigger audience this summer on Netflix,” he wrote. “Every writer and actor hopes their work will continue. And yes, I’m grateful to have been in ‘Suits’ engine room for eight of its nine seasons. But $259.71 to write a show with an audience so massive? Why the writers and actors are on strike. Entertainment executives argue they’re being offered Writers historic increases. And the thing is, even a 100% increase on a check for $259.71 doesn’t come close to paying most people’s rent.”
Sisters Nora and Lila Zuckerman, who were producers and writers for the fourth and fifth seasons, echoed similar sentiments. for writing suit” “Rebound” During the episode, Lilla received $12,568.57 in residual payments in 2016 when it aired in the United States, in reruns on cable and internationally. This year, with the series’ historic viewership, it received $414.26 per episode for this episode comma.
What does this say about what people want to watch?
“suit is one of those shows that were ready for people to discover,” Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture and professor at the Newhouse School of Public Communication, tells Yahoo Entertainment. Vintage vintage, perhaps suit’ it is time “.
While noting that the display is not up to standard The Wire, Soprano or Too bad – though he points out that Netflix helped make Too bad a hit After the AMC drug drama began streaming on the platform – he said it was an “interesting, compelling and fun program to watch” in its original run.
“It’s fun, and it’s not overly exposed — not many people have seen it before,” says Thompson. “It’s one of those things where — there’s now a strike, no late-night TV — there’s a lot of old stuff that people haven’t seen. For a lot of people, it’s on this Netflix service, and it’s all these episodes, like a little treasure “.
As for Markle’s role in her success, she doesn’t get much credit, but some.
“I’m not sure exactly what part of the recipe is responsible for the success of broadcasting, but it’s definitely an ingredient in it,” says Thompson. “I really think that’s a star suit He later became a massive presence in the culture outside of the show which certainly didn’t hurt him. But I think the easy viewing of it, the multiple seasons on Netflix, would have been a huge boost even without Meghan Markle, but it’s clearly brought her some branding that she otherwise wouldn’t have.”