According to Nielsen estimates (via Variety), an incredible 17.1 million people in the US checked out “The Irishman” on Netflix during its first five days of release. This is, of course, an estimate from Netflix, based on the “average minute audience” of 13.2 million viewers. We can’t confirm that this is the number of people who watched the entire film from beginning to end. There must have been an incalculable number of people who started it and just haven’t finished watching it yet. And so, what I really want to know is how many people actually saw the movie from beginning to end? Nielsen says that on the film’s debut date, 751,000 viewers (roughly 18% of the total viewership) watched “The Irishman” in its entirety. On Friday, November 29, 930,000 folks saw the whole thing. Netflix likes to call views “hits,” so, if you take for example past Netflix originals in terms of the amount of “hits,” “Bird Box” and the recent “El Camino,” garnered around 25 million each in their first 7 days. Of course, these two films weren’t 3.5 hours long and were much more accessible to the mainstream. So, yes, the 17 million hits “The Irishman” garnered is quite an impressive feat. Now, will Oscar voters go past their Netflix biases and actually name Scorsese’s movie Best Picture of the Year? “The Irishman” is on Netflix right now for you to stream. Contribute Hire me
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