The Spanish series La casa de papel becomes the most watched in non-English language on Netflix

The streaming video giant, Netflix, has just announced the figures for the first quarter of the year, a quarter in which it has added more than 7 million new subscribers, thus exceeding the most optimistic forecasts of analysts, so the total number of subscribers that Netflix has spread all over the world reaches 125 million.

It should be remembered that Netflix is ​​currently available around the world except in four countries where it will never be due to bad relations with the American government or because of censorship issues, as is the case in China. During the presentation of the results, the American firm has revealed that the Spanish series La casa de papel, has become the most viewed non-English speaking series on its platform in the entire history of the company.

Netflix has never revealed what is the number of views of both its own series and those it buys from third parties, so we will have to stay with the desire to know what exactly the reproductions that this series has had and is having. by Antena 3 in Spain. This series, whose name has been translated into English as Money Heist is distributed internationally as a Netflix original seriesAlthough it really is not, since the streaming video company only bought its rights internationally.

According to the vice president of Netflix original series, Erik Barmack, platform users want to see original series, although the language of the series is not native. A good proof of this is found in the Narcos series, a series that despite the fact that almost 80% of the dialogues are spoken in Spanish, has had tremendous success in the three seasons that it has been running today. La casa de papel has only confirmed that originality is success, regardless of the language spoken.