The Three-Body Problem was going to be the series of the year. Netflix signed the creators of Game of Thrones to create their next big fiction, and five years after the HBO Max series ended, they have brought to the platform the adaptation of one of the most popular and complex books of recent years.
Undoubtedly, the first season of The Three-Body Problem has proven to be a narrative success. But, considering that the source material is so complex and it’s such a niche story, will it have been enough for Netflix? The first audience results have finally come out and, well, let’s just say it hasn’t been what was expected.
Goodbye to The Three-Body Problem?
The Three-Body Problem has started on Netflix with an estimated 11 million views during the week of March 18th to 24th. This is a number that falls short of Netflix’s biggest hits, and it hasn’t even made it the most-watched series of the week, as The Gentlemen has surpassed it – although it premiered earlier.
Despite not being bad audience data, and in any other series we would be talking about a success, 11 million views is far from what Netflix expected from The Three-Body Problem. Taking into account its budget and complexity, the platform would like to reach, at least, 20 million… and this puts the future of the series in danger.
As we warned you in our series review, The Three-Body Problem will have a hard time getting renewed for a second season on Netflix. It is a series that is not very accessible to the general public and, despite being one of the best fictions on the platform in recent years, Netflix has made it clear that they only care about audience data… so there is little they can do about it.
