“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” debuted on Luminate’s weekly viewership rankings with 699.1 million minutes watched in its first full week of availability on Netflix, making it the most-watched streaming original across both the film and TV charts for Aug. 2-8 by far.
This comes after a particularly slow week of streaming; between July 26 and Aug. 1 was Season 6 of “Love Island USA” with just 386.5 million minutes watched.
And beyond a solid debut for “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” the summer slowdown continued this week, as “Love Island USA” stayed near the top of the chart, clinching the No. 2 position with 365.9 million minutes watched in the second full week of availability of the season finale.
"Unsolved Mysteries" Season 4 was the No. 3 TV series with a debut of 318.2 million minutes in its first full week of availability, followed by "Mayor of Kingstown" Season 3, which saw a bump to 284.
2 million viewers during this window, which included the release of its finale. Next were "Too Hot to Handle" Season 6 in fifth place with 210.7 million minutes watched and "Presumed Innocent" in sixth with 210 million.
The rest of the chart went to titles with less than 200 million minutes watched: "Love of My Life," "Batman: Caped Crusader," "Criminal Minds" and "Cobra Kai." On the film chart, "Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie" — set within the universe of SpongeBob" debuted with 325.9 million minutes watched, more than doubling the next-most-wat.