Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Strike first and strike hard, indeed. Netflix’s “Cobra Kai” and Peacock’s “Love Island USA” topped the Luminate streaming originals TV series charts for the July 19-25 period.
On the film side, Netflix’s new rom-com “Find Me Falling” and a resurgent “Hillbilly Elegy” led the field. The Season 6 debut of “Cobra Kai” delivered 1.1 billion minutes viewed in the show’s first full week of availability, following the July 18 premiere of the first half of its final season.
The July 21 season finale of relationship reality show “Love Island” drove that show to rack up 1 billion minutes viewed, down only slightly from the previous week’s 1.1 billion minutes watched.
Amazon Prime Video's "The Boys" also had a strong frame thanks to its Season 4 finale bowing July 18. The superhero sendup finished out with 431.6 million minutes viewed.
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