Sullivan’s Crossing
It’s Tuesday, and unlike Squid Game, a new show at #1 on Netflix’s Top 10 list could not stand up to the behemoth that is Netflix’s big Monday night program.
That would of course be WWE Monday Night RAW, which has now unseated Netflix’s big licensed hit, Sullivan’s Crossing, which has ascended the ranks and become a rare, non-Netflix-original.
Sullivan’s Crossing has been planted at #1 for a while now, the low key, drama-romance series that originally aired on CTV and the CW airing two seasons on Netflix. Viewers can already watch season 3 of the series, but not on Netflix, rather on the CW site or app, which will be full of ads, but at least it’s better than nothing. It should be on Netflix in August, however. Season 4 of Sullivan’s Crossing is already greenlit, and presumably Netflix will snag that as well, given how well these first two seasons are performing.
Top 10
Squid Game season 3 remains at #3 well after launch, no great surprise given its record-setting performance at release, and it continues to climb the overall most-watched charts on Netflix. It’s been there so long it doesn’t even have a “new season” badge on it anymore.
A new season of Quarterback, the Drive to Survive-for-the-NFL series, has now hit Netflix, coming in at #4 currently. This time around the show is following the lives and games of Joe Burrow, Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins over the course of last season. The first season did well, and this seems like a show that’s going to air for quite a while here.
The Waterfront, the original Netflix crime drama, is still in the top 5 at #5, and fans are still waiting for news about the show being renewed for a second season. As I’ve said before, I believe this is almost a sure thing, given its performance, but it can just take a while to get these sorts of things finalized, and I’m expecting we will hear something in the coming weeks.
The final season of Sandman did not do amazingly well, down to #9 already, but that was the last one, so it doesn’t exactly matter. One not-amazing story so far is the recent debut of Lena Dunham’s comedy Too Much, which has arrived at #10, quite poor for a new series, and may drop off the list in short order.
I expect Sullivan’s Crossing to return to #1 soon, but how long it stays there is unclear.
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