People are only just discovering ‘the best show on Netflix’ from a decade ago

The series has become a huge, out-of-nowhere, absolutely massive hit.

But the report also indicates that all of these numbers are still within the early seasons of Suits, so we're not even near the peak of the show's newfound popularity on Netflix, as we get more concurrent viewers watching across all nine seasons of the show.

For comparison of its popularity, in the week that Suits had 3.67 billion minutes viewed, the second most popular show across all of streaming was the new season of The Lincoln Lawyer, with 1.4 billion minutes viewed, and in third place was the new season of The Witcher, with just under 1.2 billion minutes viewed.

The reasons why Suits has suddenly become popular again

Having debuted in June 2011, Suits is set at a fictional New York City law firm, following the story of college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who talks his way into a job as an associate working for successful "closer" attorney Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht).

Joined by Meghan Markle, Gina Torres and, in later seasons, Katherine Heigl, the show focused on Mike and Harvey winning lawsuits and closing cases, all while keeping Mike's secret about his lack of proper legal education a secret.

The show was a hit with critics during its initial run, scoring an average of 90% with reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes, with seasons 4, 5, 6 and 8 all reaching 100% on the review aggregate website.

All 134 episodes from the nine seasons of Suits are available to watch on Netflix right now.