Loki scored its biggest tune-in of season two for the week of its finale, rising by almost 200 million minutes over the prior week. That’s the good news.
The bad news for the Marvel/Disney+ series is that despite the jump, Loki still finished its second season well behind the first in terms of viewing time, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings. Kids’ favorite Bluey led the overall rankings for the week of Nov. 6-12, and Friends continued to post higher than usual numbers two weeks after the death of star Matthew Perry.
Loki had 753 million minutes of viewing for the week (its finale debuted on Nov. 9), a 34 percent jump from the previous week and its best showing of the season by a wide margin. The previous season two high was 588 million minutes for Oct. 9-15. Over the six weeks of season two, the series racked up about 3.39 billion minutes of viewing (including repeat viewing of the first season, as Nielsen counts all episodes of a show in its streaming rankings). Season one’s six episodes in the summer of 2021 amassed 5.23 billion minutes of viewing, putting season two down about 35 percent.
Bluey scored 918 million minutes of viewing on Disney+ to lead the overall rankings — though the week was the first this year without at least one title reaching the billion-minute mark. Bluey edged Grey’s Anatomy (897 million minutes) for No. 1. Friends came in sixth overall with 716 million minutes on Max, a little behind Netflix’s limited series All the Light We Cannot See (744 million).
Two series made their first appearance on the charts: Netflix’s animated Blue Eye Samurai (315 million minutes of viewing) and Paramount+’s Lawmen: Bass Reeves (290 million).
David Fincher’s The Killer led the movie chart for its opening week on Netflix; the film starring Michael Fassbender drew 650 million minutes of viewing.
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Nov. 6-12 are below.
Overall
1. Bluey (Disney+), 918 million minutes viewed2. Grey’s Anatomy (Netflix), 897 million3. Suits (Netflix/Peacock), 826 million4. Loki (Disney+), 753 million5. All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix), 744 million6. Friends (Max), 716 million7. Selling Sunset (Netflix), 709 million8. NCIS (Netflix/Paramount+), 705 million9. Six Feet Under (Max/Netflix), 692 million10. Gilmore Girls (Netflix), 666 million
Original Series
1. Loki, 753 million minutes2. All the Light We Cannot See, 744 million3. Selling Sunset, 709 million4. The Great British Baking Show (Netflix), 436 million5. Escaping Twin Flames (Netflix), 404 million6. The Morning Show (Apple TV+), 373 million7. Life on Our Planet (Netflix), 363 million8. The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix), 339 million9. Blue Eye Samurai (Netflix), 315 million10. Lawmen: Bass Reeves (Paramount+), 290 million
Acquired Series
1. Bluey, 918 million minutes2. Grey’s Anatomy, 897 million3. Suits, 826 million4. Friends, 716 million5. NCIS, 705 million6. Six Feet Under, 692 million7. Gilmore Girls, 666 million8. Cocomelon (Netflix), 630 million9. Face Off (Netflix/Peacock), 576 million10. The Simpsons (Disney+), 545 million
Movies
1. The Killer (Netflix), 650 million minutes2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Netflix), 597 million3. Insidious: The Red Door (Netflix), 441 million4. Home Alone (Disney+), 422 million5. Elemental (Disney+), 352 million6. Minions (Netflix), 280 million7. No Hard Feelings (Netflix), 258 million8. The Grinch (2018) (Peacock), 251 million9. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Peacock), 249 million10. Five Nights at Freddy’s (Peacock), 248 million
