Last week, Prime Video’s massively mounted fantasy series ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ had outdone HBO’s widely admired show ‘House of the Dragon’ on Nielsen’s overall top ten streaming titles list. However, as per the latest Nielsen’s weekly top ten streaming chart, a Netflix series has beaten both these premium titles. And that show is the martial arts drama ‘Cobra Kai’, whose fifth season started streaming around a month back on Netflix.
As per the Nielsen’s weekly overall top ten streaming chart (for September 5-11 week), ‘Cobra Kai’ has garnered a whopping 1.73 billion minutes. While ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ and ‘House of the Dragon’ have clocked 1.2 billion minutes and 1 billion minutes, respectively.
The top ranked title ‘Cobra Kai’ is followed by the Thor sequel ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ (1.5 billion minutes), which started streaming on the Disney+ Hotstar OTT platform from 8th September.
Other titles on Nielsen’s overall top ten streaming list include mystery thriller series ‘Devil in Ohio’ (1.37 billion minutes), Robert Zemeckis’ live action ‘Pinocchio’ film (930 million minutes), ‘Game of Thrones’ (805 million minutes), and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (622 million minutes), etc.
Netflix’s martial arts drama series ‘Cobra Kai’ is set more than three decades after the events of the 1984 cult film ‘The Karate Kid’. While the parent film featured Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso in the role of the underdog protagonist and his adversary Johnny Lawrence was played by William Zabka. Whereas tables turned in the spin-off web series as the goings-on are also narrated from Johnny Lawrence’s point of view in a setting where he becomes the underdog. After Terry Silver unethically wins the Karate tournament in Season-4, Johnny and Ralph must team up again to outwit the formidable adversary in Season-5.