Normal People Television Series Reaches 62 Million Views

Normal People (Hulu/BBC)

JAKARTA - The television series Normal People became the BBC's most watched series in 2020. Launching Deadline today, Tuesday, December 8, the series won 62.7 million views since its first release on iPlayer.

Initially, Normal People was only broadcast on the BBC television channel but to increase the number of viewers, they released the series through iPlayer, a special streaming service for broadcasting BBC content.

According to the BBC, the increase in the use of iPlayer is increasing due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the British public who are running a lockdown.

Apart from Normal People, no series has had this number of views. This record is followed by the third season of Killing Eve which has been watched 39.3 million times.

Normal People is a series adapted from the book of the same name by Sally Rooney. This series tells the story of Connell (Paul Mescal) and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones') complicated relationship. Marianne is a student who cannot socialize despite her good grades, while Connell is a popular but poor man.

Connell's mother worked at the Marianne family home. Both Marianne and Connell communicated with each other at home and didn't know each other when they got to school. One day their relationship started to grow deeper.

This series stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal where their chemistry is one of the interesting things to watch.

Normal People also received a number of nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards, TCA Awards, TV Choice Awards, and Gold Derby TV Awards.