Netflix’s most-awaited political crime thriller The Recruit Season 2 is now released across the World. We have to wait to see how much the second season becomes popular among the audience. Now, the new series has featured Noah Centineo, the new series sees him playing the role of Owen Hendricks, a lawyer who is thrust into a conspiracy plot involving the CIA.
Recently, All eight episodes touched down on Netflix just on 26th December 2022 The texture of the show is really amazing with Alexi Hawley known best for making hits on network television, containing the castle, The Tookie, The Following, and Body of Proof.
The Recruit Season 2: Renewal Status
This is just the first weekend, it’s a little too early to know whether we will have The Recruit Season 2 or not. As you may know, Netflix doesn’t publicly announce the criteria by which its series get renewed or cancelled, but there’s plenty of evidence out there on what metrics help renewal choices.
If you’re enjoying the show and want to get it renewed, the best chances of that happening are by you watching all the way to the end and then encouraging others to do the same.
Has any of the cast or crew talked about The Recruit Season 2 thus far? Alexi Crawley has implied that conversations have taken place or at least, a blueprint is there. All eight episodes touched down on Netflix on December 16th, 2022.
Hawley talked about his attitude going into season 1, by telling:
“I know things about where I would want to take it, and where I’d want to go with it. I mean obviously, you hope for success, but as you could see with that ending, I didn’t plan for failure because I feel like in this day and age you just have to be bold, you have to be dramatic, to the expense of everything else. And you can’t worry about Season 2’s, or Season 3’s, or beyond. You have to go, “What’s the best version of this story right now?” And trust that people will come to it. And then you’ll get another shot at it.”
The Recruit: Review
Let’s break down the review scores for the show thus far :
- IMDb User Score: 7.6
- RottenTomatoes Critics Score: 75%
- RottenTomatoes Audience Score: 87%
- Metacritic: 60/100
It’s fair to say that reviews for The Recruit have surpassed expectations (at least that I had personally) in that it’s attracting the same kind of audience that made Crawley’s network shows popular.
The Recruit: Netflix Performance
We don’t have too much data on The Recruit just yet but we’ll be looking at several sources for how well the show is getting on. This section will be updated a lot over the next few weeks.
Netflix has yet to release any official viewing hour stats for the show yet. Within the first two weeks, the show accumulated 147.89 million hours just between 11th December to 25th December.
| Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 11th, 2022 to December 18th, 2022 | 52,300,000 | 3 | 1 |
| December 18th, 2022 to December 25th, 2022 | 95,590,000 (+83%) | 3 | 2 |
In just 2-3 weeks, the show got an 83% rise, we are now waiting for the third week. If the show got a 60% drop, then it definitely lights out.
| Week Period | Hours Viewed(M) | Rank | Week in Top 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 11th, 2022 to December 18th, 2022 | 52,300,000 | 3 | 1 |
| December 18th, 2022 to December 25th, 2022 | 95,590,000 (+83%) | 3 | 2 |
If we draw a comparison with the other shows, then the Lincoln Lawyer along with two other big hits for Netflix in 2022 in The Watcher and The Sandman. After taking an eye on CVE, we can watch how well the show is on the opening weekend with such other debuts in 2022.
The red mark indicates the cancellation of the show, and the green means renewed show. Netflix will just drop the official view hour stats for the show. The first opportunity to unveil the numbers like 20th December 2022.
FlixPatrol data, which gives the daily raw Netflix Top 10s, suggests the show has not been able to topple Wednesday from the top spot yet but is the second biggest show on Netflix in its opening weekend. The Data so far reveals that the series is performing best in Brazil, the United States, Canada, and some parts of Europe.
According to TelevisionStats.com, the show had a huge rise after its addition to Netflix, coming from nowhere in the runup to its release. Thus far, the show has peaked as the fourth biggest show in the world, according to their data. They pull data from external sources such as Twitter, Wikipedia, Google, and Reddit.
There is only one shows more popular than The Recruit at the time of publishing like the White Lotus at HBO, Wednesday on Netflix, 1923 at Paramount+, along with Yellowstone at Paramount Networks.
The Recruit Season 2: Expectations
In episode 8, titled W.T.F.I.O.H., the mission to get Max home to Russia continues, and just as things seem to be coming to a close, complications arise. It also saw the clashing of Owen’s personal and professional life. Season 1 concludes with a big twist; Karolina shoots Max but is she dead? That will undoubtedly be the cornerstone question that gets answered in The Recruit Season 2.
The ending then sees Owen reaching out to Hannah to meet up abroad which concludes the series.
The RadioTimes explains that we’ll see the return of Noah Centineo in a second season as well as Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, and Fivel Stewart. They also predict the same as us in the sense that “Owen Hendricks would be thrown into another high-stakes mission, although this time he could be somewhat more prepared for the experience.”
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