No let-up in Okay-drama craze: ‘All of Us Are Dead’ now Netflix US No. 1

By IANS

LOS ANGELES: Four months in the past, ‘Squid Game’ climbed to No. 1 on Netflix’s US every day Top 10 listing on its method to changing into the streamer’s most-watched authentic collection ever.

Now, the Korean zombie drama, ‘All of Us Are Dead’, has achieved the feat, in accordance with Deadline. This makes Korea the primary nation to position a number of non-English language collection on prime of Netflix’s US every day Top 10, making it essentially the most sought-after provider of native content material.

‘All of Us Are Dead’, which rose to No. 1 on its seventh day of launch versus Day 4 for ‘Squid Game’, clearly rode on the latter’s coattails, benefitting from the skyrocketing curiosity in Korean dramas, stories Deadline.

“But the one-two punch of ‘Squid Game’ and ‘All of Us Are Dead’ did not come out of nowhere. There had been a rapid build-up of interest in K-dramas on Netflix, with the US viewership jumping by over 200 per cent between 2019 and 2021,” says the leisure information web site.

The 12-episode ‘All of Us Are Dead’ follows a bunch of scholars trapped in a highschool who discover themselves in dire conditions as they search to be rescued from a zombie invasion of their college.