Luke Cage Is The Biggest Marvel Netflix Series Of The Year

When Marvel Television confirmed they were giving Luke Cage his own solo Netflix series, fans of Power Man rejoiced. The character made his live-action debut on the site through Jessica Jones, and audiences fall for Luke Cage's charm. And, now, one media company is reporting that the hero's standalone show is the biggest Marvel/Netflix hit of 2016.

Symphony Advanced Media has done the math and found that Luke Cage is Marvel Television's biggest hit on Netflix. The streaming site does not provide ratings or viewership numbers for its original series, but the company estimates that Luke Cage had a bigger opening than Making A Murderer and Stranger Things.

According to Symphony, 6.34 percent of Netflix users aged 18-49 were watching Luke Cage in the 32 days following its premiere. Those numbers make it a competitive series on Netflix's roster, but it doesn't push it above titans like Orange Is The New Black or Fuller House. And, when Gilmore Girls returns for its special miniseries, the beloved sitcom stands to bulldoze Luke Cage if given the chance.

Of course, fans already knew that Luke Cage was one of Marvel's more popular series on Netflix. The show has the highest rating on Rotten Tomato of all Marvel Cinematic Universe installments, and Luke Cage became a buzzworthy topic after it debuted. In fact, Netflix even crashed shortly after the series went live, and fans began speculating that Luke Cage was behind the site's struggles.

Those rumors were only fueled further when the official Luke Cage and Jessica Jones accounts on Twitter began bantering over the outage. Their NSFW chatter kept fans occupied while Netflix sorted out the issue and got Luke Cage back online.

Based on the Marvel Comics character, in Marvel's Luke Cage a hoodie-wearing, unbreakable ex-con fights to clear his name and save his neighborhood. He wasn't looking for a fight, but the people need a hero.

Marvel's Luke Cage stars Mike Colter as Carl Lucas, a.ka. Luke Cage, who debuted in Marvel's Jessica Jones. Luke Cage also stars Mahershala Ali, Simone Missick, Theo Rossi, Erik LaRay Harvey, Rosario Dawson, and Alfre Woodard.

Marvel's Luke Cage is now streaming on Netflix.

[H/T] The Observer