With ‘Suits’ Marking Six Weeks Atop US Charts, Aaron Korsh Opens Up on the “Curiosity About Meghan Markle” That Is Feeding the Frenzy

Published 08/25/2023, 6:57 AM EDT

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Actors have a year, and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, is having a decade. First aired in 2011, the former American actress has once again bounced back to top headlines. As always had been for the American audience, Meghan Markle is serving! The ten-year-old paralegal romantic drama is working wonders for the streaming giant. Not tired of breaking its own records, the recently licensed show has taken another Netflix original, Wednesday down. Owing to the massive resurgence Suits writer Aaron Korsh weighs in on the Meghan Markle impact. 

As its popularity exploded after coming to Netflix, there is no doubt Aaron Korsh has gotten his entire family to watch the masterpiece. As his preteen daughters get hinged on the show, Korsh revealed the reason why the show is at the pinnacle of its lifespan, revealed Variety. Amidst the various theories that stand true, Korsh revealed that social media platforms like TikTok have really given it a boost. Speaking of Markle, everyone knows the buzz around the Californian Duchess, he suggested. 

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Thus agreeing to the same, Korsh added, “There is no doubt that there’s some curiosity about Meghan Markle”. Generalizing the characters, he further explained how people find a mirror image in their fixated favorites. “People either see themselves in someone and/or who they wish they were,” he claimed.

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Moreover, the American streamer knows just how to take a decade-old show and amplify it by a billion. 

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According to Nielsen charts, the Meghan Markle and Patrick J. Adams-led show has been consecutively breaking its own records. It has thus become the second most-watched show ever on the American Streamer for a time period of six consecutive months. This record was previously held by Wednesday that held a viewership record of 20.3 billion minutes viewed. 

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Surpassing the same Suits has now come closer to checking out a massive accomplishment held by Netflix’s only chartbuster Stranger Things. The sci-fi thriller is the only Netflix original to boast a total of 27.8 billion minutes of views watched over a period of consecutive six months. Currently, there are four major hits racing for the top. 

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Along with the above-mentioned, Jason Bateman directed a crime-drenched masterpiece, Ozark, is also on the list with a total record of 19.95 billion minutes viewed for over a month. 

What is your favorite among the four? Let us know in the comments below.

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Shraddha

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Shraddha Das is a Content Lead and the Sub Group Head at Netflix Junkie. Captivated by the power of storytelling and the written word at a young age, which led her to pursue a career in journalism at the Esteemed KIIT School of Journalism and Mass Communication, in Orissa. She has over 1500 articles to her name.

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