In its first week of eligibility on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals, The Gentleman placed second (behind Love is Blind) with 1.21 billion minutes viewed.
The following week, it rose to the top of the streaming originals chart with 1.9 billion minutes viewed.
The Gentlemen aren’t bowing out just yet: Netflix has renewed Guy Ritchie’s action-comedy for Season 2, the streamer announced Wednesday. The show’s stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario will return for eight episodes, reprising their roles as aristocrat Eddie Horniman and drug empire heiress Susie Glass, respectively.
In Season 1, “Eddie Horniman (James) unexpectedly inherits his father’s sizeable country estate only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire,” reads its official description.