‘House of Cards’ Returns With Massive Viewership Increase

The Emmy-award winning political drama “House of Cards” returned for its second season on Friday (Feb. 14), exciting many of the show’s already existing fans and hooking tons of new viewers.

The drama series premiered on Netflix early Friday morning, and within a 7-10 hour period a whopping 16% of Netflix subscribers had streamed at least one episode of the second season of “House of Cards,” according to data provided by broadband technology firm Procera Networks. This is a huge increase in the number of people watching “House of Cards” compared to last year’s premiere.

Last year’s data shows that only 2% of Netflix subscribers had streamed at least one episode of the first season of “House of Cards” during its entire premiere weekend.

The entire second season of ‘House of Cards’ is available for Netflix subscribers to watch.