It wasn’t just Meghan Markle: How ‘Suits’ really made streaming history 4 years later

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all due to curiosity about cast member Meghan Markle, aka The Duchess of Sussex.“I think it’s a multi-tiered effect,” Korsh, 56, told The Post.“About a month before [‘Suits’] showed up on Netflix I started hearing from many people … saying that their teenage son or daughter saw the [‘Suits’] interview scene with Mike [Patrick J.

Adams] and Harvey [Gabriel Macht] on TikTok and started watching the series — and now all their friends are addicted to it … like seniors in high school and freshmen in college.”“Suits” aired on USA Network from 2011-2019 (nine seasons) and Markle — who played paralegal-turned-lawyer Rachel Zane — met and married Prince Harry toward the latter part of its run. (She did not return for the series finale due to obvious reasons.)All nine seasons of “Suits” have streamed on Peacock for several years — Season 9 is also available on Prime Video — but it wasn’t until early July, when it debuted on Netflix in the US, that it really took off.

It snared 3.1 billion viewing minutes in its opening week on Netflix and Peacock and 3.7 billion viewing minutes the following week — a new streaming record for an acquired series (as opposed to an original show).It’s now spent seven weeks in the Top 10 streaming series on Netflix.“Somehow it got hot on TikTok and then, when it got on Netflix, they will suggest/push a show on you and that was a huge thing,” Korsh said. “And, obviously, there’s some component of people being fascinated to see what Meghan was like before she was married to Harry.

I think it’s sort of a combination of those three things.“Look, I love the fact that Meghan is now helping us,” Korsh said. “I think she did an amazing job on the show and I love that people can see her.