856.3M Hours Watched Turns This Netflix Drama Into a Bigger Streaming Force Than 'Yellowstone'

As impressive as it is, the Netflix original Ginny & Georgia, which first premiered back in 2021, accumulated streaming numbers miles above the beloved Western Yellowstone in 2025. According to FlixPatrol, the series, which released its third season on June 5, 2025, earned 856.3 million hours from January to June, as well as 85 million views. For comparison, Yellowstone, one of Taylor Sheridan's most beloved TV shows, earned 335.6 million hours. Still impressive, but pales in comparison. But while Ginny & Georgia's astronomical success might be surprising, the show's been a beloved fan favorite since its release, and Season 3 kept that love going.

'Ginny & Georgia' Is Much More Than a Mother-Daughter Story

While the title of Ginny & Georgia suggests that it's not much more than a mother-daughter TV show, like Gilmore Girls, for instance, Ginny & Georgia sets itself apart. For starters, Georgia (Brianne Howey) is far from the cookie-cutter mom, someone who does whatever she deems necessary to protect her kids, Ginny (Antonia Gentry) and Austin (Diesel La Torraca). With a murderous past behind her, and warped moral compass, Georgia finds herself in hot water time and time again, even after her marriage to the mayor (Scott Porter). As for Ginny's experience, her coming-of-age story isn't reliant on clichés and worn-out narratives. Instead, the show doesn't shy away from covering topics of depression, self-harm and guilt, especially with everything she finds out about her mom.

Of course, like any good drama, romance is sprinkled throughout the series. While Ginny's crush on next-door neighbor Marcus (Felix Mallard) is all butterflies at first, their romance becomes complicated and nuanced as the seasons go on, with viewers torn between rooting for them and wanting them to focus on themselves instead. The same goes for Georgia's love life, which always seems to be in the balance between Mayor Paul, Ginny's charming dad Zion (Nathan Mitchell), and Joe (Raymond Ablack), Georgia's long-lost love from her childhood. With family ties at its heart, Ginny & Georgia hits the soft spot of drama, romance, teen angst, intrigue, and murder, all wrapped into one.

'Ginny & Georgia' Season 3 Took a Major Swing

Of course, no talk about Ginny & Georgia's success in 2025 is complete without highlighting the series' genre-bending Season 3. After the first two moderately light seasons of the show, Season 3 packed a punch and became a pseudo-courtroom drama as Georgia gets arrested and goes on trial for murdering Cynthia’s (Sabrina Grdevich) husband. With such an intense plot unraveling throughout the season, tensions are heightened in Ginny & Georgia, with relationships and friendships being put to the test. Ginny and Austin are taken from their mother in a brutal move from their fathers, Paul gets lied to and doubts his relationship with Georgia more than ever before, and Ginny and Georgia fight, but still rely on each other when Ginny needs it most.

By extending itself into a whole other genre, Ginny & Georgia's Season 3 not only drifted beyond a light teenage show, but established itself as a drama with heavy-hitting performances and tangible emotional weight. Season 3 is the series' highest rated season so far, scoring 75% from critics, and 82% from viewers. "Ginny & Georgia Season 3 stays grounded amid high-stakes drama, revealing the fragile line between justification and consequence," wrote one reviewer.

With that said, while Ginny & Georgia may have been seen as a light watch, or even a so-called "hate watch" at first, the series has proved itself again and again. By blending light and dark themes and heightening tensions in Season 3, the show has managed to keep itself fresh and entertaining, and worthy of its massive 85 million views in the first half of 2025. With Season 4 of Ginny & Georgia already in the works, the streaming hit will likely keep getting bigger.