{"id":278053,"date":"2026-02-11T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278053\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:01:07","slug":"the-lincoln-lawyer-achieves-audience-growth-with-season-4-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/278053\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Achieves Audience Growth With Season 4 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBenedict Bridgerton<\/a>\u2018s illustrious affair with the Lady in Silver is still stealing the hearts of Netflix<\/a> viewers, easily placing the first half of Bridgerton Season 4 back atop the streamer\u2019s weekly rankings yet again from February 2 to 8.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn their first full week on Netflix, the first four episodes of the season attracted 23.4M views, the streamer says. That\u2019s just a hair below the total for Season 3, Volume 1 in the same interval<\/a>, making Bridgerton one of the rare series that has managed to maintain a majority of its audience into its fourth season. That is, if the series can sustain this level of interest with the second half of the season. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe remaining four episodes of Bridgerton Season 4 are set to debut at the end of February. When that happens, viewership comparisons will get more difficult, but for now they are pretty apples-to-apples. We dove into the complications when this happened with the final season of Stranger Things, which you can read about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior seasons of the period drama were also seeing renewed interest with Season 4\u2019s premiere. Season 1 took No. 5 on the Top 10 with 3.5M views, while Season 3 placed eighth with 3M views.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso in TV, The Lincoln Lawyer<\/a> returned with its fourth season during this interval. The series came in at No. 9 with 9M views, which is actually up over the third season\u2019s debut performance<\/a>. No wonder it\u2019s already been renewed for Season 5. That said, Season 3 debuted to some strong competition from series including Outer Banks, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, and Love is Blind. Besides Bridgerton, there was not quite as much content holding onto viewer attention on Netflix last week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThird place went to His & Hers with 6.2M views, continuing its strong showing over the last few weeks. But fourth place? That went to Is It Cake? Valentines\u00a0with 4.3M views.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn film, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck\u2019s suspense thriller\u00a0The Rip came in No. 2 with 7.4M views. A new true crime documentary took the top spot. The Investigation of Lucy Letby, following a divisive 2023 case of a neonatal nurse in the UK convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more, scored 12.9M views. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benedict Bridgerton\u2018s illustrious affair with the Lady in Silver is still stealing the hearts of Netflix viewers, easily…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10488,156,1094,111,139,69,3291,156224,437,5067],"class_list":{"0":"post-278053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bridgerton","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-netflix","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-streaming","15":"tag-the-lincoln-lawyer","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-tv-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}