The second season of opened to big viewing numbers in the United States — just not as big as its first season. The Prime Video series amassed 1.02 billion minutes of viewing in the United States for the week of Aug.

26-Sept. 1, good for first place among original series and second among all titles in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. Season two premiered on Aug.

29 with three episodes, and Nielsen says about 70 percent of the show’s weekly total was for those three, with the remainder devoted to season one. (Viewing totals on the ratings service’s charts cover all episodes of a series.) The 1.

02 billion minutes is down about 19 percent from season one’s opening week (1.25 billion) in August 2022. ranks third among Prime Video series U.

S. opening weeks this year behind (2.9 billion minutes) and (1.

19 billion); s second season logged 1.69 billion minutes for its debut in December 2023. Amazon has said watched the season’s first three episodes over 11 days; these Nielsen rankings cover only four days of release.

The company also says that the United States accounts for only about 30 percent of s global audience. spent a as the top overall title with 1.19 billion minutes of viewing on Netflix and Hulu.

AMC’s continued to pay dividends, with four shows — (915 million minutes), (890 million), (688 million, charting for the first time in 18 months) and (628 million) among the top 10 library series. Netflix’s (830 million minutes of watch time) was the top debut after ..