Sirens
This article was published on 6/7 and republished on 6/9.
Sirens has been dominating the Netflix charts for a couple weeks now, only being temporarily unseated by two Mondays of WWE RAW. But now an actual, scripted show has come along to take its place at last.
Unless there was some sort of technical glitch, Ginny and Georgia season 3 arrived, briefly, at the #8 spot in Netflix’s top 10 list, but as expected, it has shot up to #1 on the service now that the exceptionally long, 2.5 year wait has come to an end.
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For reasons that remain something of a mystery (a brief strike can’t really explain this), Ginny and Georgia took so long that its young cast members aged and became a meme. But now it’s back, and people can finally see the resolution of the cliffhanger from season 2 all those years ago. Ginny and Georgia may not be a top 10 Netflix hit in the all-time list, but it’s a solid offering from the service that kills a lot of shows after 1-2 seasons. And if you want further evidence of that, Netflix actually double-renewed the show for seasons 3 and 4 years ago in May 2023. It’s reportedly already being written, so hopefully no mammoth game this time.
Sirens has actually fallen to #3, behind a new season of Tires. It is frankly amazing that Sirens stayed on top that long as just a five-episode miniseries. While the cast has expressed openness to a second season, even if one wasn’t planned, we have no news on that front. But with this kind of performance, you can bet that they are having some conversations with Netflix behind the scenes.
New mystery series Dept. Q is #4, and while the highest it went was #2, that’s still not bad for a wholly new series. It’s rather high-caliber, the nine-episode season starring Matthew Goode, and the series is from the writer and director of The Queen’s Gambit, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows ever. It’s got great critic reviews at an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score but a pretty stunning 94% audience score. Given that this is not pitched as a miniseries, this seems primed to be renewed for a second season even if it did not land #1 placement on the list. At least not in America.
So, enjoy Ginny and Georgia season 3 after all this time. I’m going to pivot to the aforementioned Avenue Q myself.
Update (6/9): Checking back in on the list, Sirens has now dropped down to #4, behind the new mystery series The Survivors, which stars Rings of Power lead Charlie Vickers. Here’s the synopsis of the show that immediately landed at #3:
“Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore a sleepy seaside town apart; the death of a young woman dredges up the past.”
The show is a six episode limited series based on a book, so it’s not fishing for a second season or anything like that. Above it is the second season of Shane Gillis’ Tires, which has doubled its critic score this time around, and looks to be a vast improvement. Not surprisingly, Ginny and Georgia remains at #1 on the list, and it is likely to stay there for a good long while. As mentioned, that already was renewed for season 4 so we’re not really looking at performance here, other than how it might indicate longer term interest in the series. But it will return either way.
I also did in fact start Dept. Q like I said I was going to, and while I feel like the nine episode season is a bit stretched out as I near the end, I have found it to be quite good and I can recommend it to most mystery fans. The high critic and audience scores were right. I will probably finish that in the next few days, and perhaps move on to The Survivors next. That does not have any critic or audience scores in yet.
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