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Season 2 of “Alice in Borderland” has become Netflix’s most-watched non-English series in a week, the streaming giant announced on Wednesday.
The newest season of the Japanese sci-fi thriller logged 61.2 million viewing hours just days after its Dec. 22 premiere. In the same period, new viewers and fans revisiting Season 1 added to a series total of approximately 80 million hours.
Directed by Shinsuke Sato, “Alice in Borderland” follows Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), a young man who finds himself in an alternate-reality Tokyo where a series of deadly games are held. Season 2 takes place after Arisu and his friends survive the first round of games and move on to face the citizens of “Borderland.”
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