The Queen's Gambit, a recently released drama miniseries on Netflix, has just cracked a record-setting 62 million households watching it in its first 28 days of release since October 23. A tweet from the streaming service boasts that this is "Netflix's biggest scripted limited series to date."
The series has had global reach with viewers in many countries including Russia, Hong Kong, France, Taiwan, and Australia. A release from Netflix also reports that the show "made the top 10 in 92 countries and ranked No. 1 in 63 countries including the UK, Argentina, Israel, and South Africa." Then again, it should also likely be stated that this is Netflix itself reporting these numbers--which cannot be verified externally and have been known in the past to be dubious--so these brags should be taken with a grain of salt.
An inspiring adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1983 novel of the same name, the series is about a young chess prodigy learning the game in an 1950s orphanage who supports her adopted mother by winning increasingly bigger competitions.
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