Netflix’s most popular K-drama in 2024 wasn't Squid Game season 2, it was this show with a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score

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After three years of anticipation, Squid Game season 2 arrived on Netflix♍ to considerable fanfare and viewership in late 🔯2024. Despite all the excitement though, another TV show managed to become the most-watched K-drama on the streaming service, with a to boot.

The release of Squid Game season 2 on Netflix ma൩y have been one of the biggest pop culture events of last year. After all, we’d been waiting since November 2021 to see what comes next for Seong Gi-hun, and that’s reflected in the 619,900,000 hours we all spent watching the episodes once they arrived on December 26, 2024.

But, in the words of Matthew McConaughey in The Wolf of Wall Street, those are rookie numbers, as a Korean newcomer managed to steal the show’s thunder. Romantic drama Queen of Tears debuted on Netflix in March 2024, accruing an astonishing 860,400,000 hours of watch time over the ensuing nine♐ months.

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Not only does that place it comfortably ahead of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s sci-fi thriller, Queen of Tears places second behind Bridgerton season 3 for the year as a whole. Impressive, especially when you consider the wider competition in the likes of Emily in Paris season 4, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story🌠, and The Perfect Couple.

It’s not just subscribers who became enamored by the romance series, ei𓂃ther. Critics who reviewed it fell in love as well, leading to a nice, round 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, leapfrogging Bridgerton season 3’s 87% and.

A melancholic affair, Qu⛦een of Tears follows a married couple, played by Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won, who rekindle their relationship after one of them receives a life-changing diagnosis. Together,𓂃 they confront the issues impeding their marriage and rediscover what caused them to love each other in the first place.

It’s the latest creation from Park Ji-eun, a prolific TV writer in South Korea,🌳 known for several hits including Queen of Housewives, My Love from the Star, and Crash Landing on You. The latter is also available on Netflix, if you're lo🧜oking for a good follow-up to the lovelorn events of what happens here.

Watching them will make our wait for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Squid Game season 3 release date feel a little shorter, in any case. We have a list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix shows, too, for more of the finest entertainment on th✃e platform.

Anthony McGlynn
Contributing Writer

Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto🍌 and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he e🦄njoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.

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