One Piece dominates Netflix’s charts again – here’s what we know about season 2
Season 2 of One Piece isn’t official, but the show’s producers are already teasing many more seasons
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We loveOne Pieceand it looks like you do too: it’s not so much topping theNetflixstreaming charts as making all the other shows feel inadequate. With a whopping 19.3 million views and 145.7 million hours streamed in the past week, the pirate seriesremains the king of the TV show high seasfor a second week in a row.
As we previously explained in a story aboutwhyOne Pieceis the live-action is the show you have to try, it’s a manga-based epic that blends tragedy with comedy, features a great cast of characters and has almost infinite possibilities for new seasons. There’s a joke among fans of the anime that it doesn’t getreallygood until episode 500. Theanimated seriesis currently close to 1,100 episodes long and there are so many story arcs there’s an entire Wiki dedicated to following them. So it’s a little surprising that so far at least, thebest streaming servicehasn’t announced a second season.
That doesn’t mean a season two isn’t coming, though. It’s been reported that aseason two is ready to go. Variety says the scripts have been written, and in conversation with Deadline the show’s producers Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements teased the show’s future – not just another season, but at least five more. “We’ve definitely had more thorough conversations about what we would do with Season 2 should we have the opportunity, and then less extensive conversations about where we would go for season three to six.”
What else have we been streaming this week?
In any other context season five ofVirgin River’s68.5 million viewing hours would be incredible, but here it’s a mere number two with around half the views ofOne Piece. Season three ofWho Is Erin Carter?is in at third place.
Then there’s my current favorite:Top Boy. The gritty London drug drama is one of the best things on any streaming service right now, and this fifth and final season (it’s labeled season three on Netflix as the streamer doesn’t count the first two Channel 4 (UK) seasons, which it callsTop Boy: Summerhouse) is going to leave a very big hole in my to-watch list. I’ve loved all four seasons and season five is spectacular so far too.
The rather less deadlyLive At 100is in at five, exploring the secrets of the world’s longest-living communities (London drug dealers, you’ll be amazed to discover, aren’t among them).
Meanwhile,Shane Gillis: Beautiful Dogsis a new entrant at number six. Season one ofPredatorsis new at number seven, and the final season ofDisenchantmentis at number eight with the fifth season ofPainkillerjust behind. Last but not least there’s a new entrant at 10 in the form ofSpy Ops, a docu-drama about spies from the CIA to the UK’s MI6.
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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than a dozen books. Her memoir,Carrie Kills A Man, is on sale now and her next book, about pop music, is out in 2025. She is the singer in Glaswegian rock bandUnquiet Mind.
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