On Wednesday, I was on the subway to work, and I wound up standing next to someone watching The Irishman on a tablet.
According to numbers released by Nielsen, The Irishman was watched by “17.1 million unique Netflix viewers in the U.S. in the first five days of its streaming release.”
Martin Scorsese might not be happy with how people are watching it, but clearly folks are curious about the movie.
But if the goal is getting and keeping eyeballs on the Netflix service in a time of increased competition, The Irishman certainly did that so far.