Percy Jackson Season 2 posts streaming decline as Season 3 moves forward

Movieweb reports that Percy Jackson and the Olympians saw a drop in streaming minutes for Season 2, with the premiere week in Dec. 2025 logging 508 million viewing minutes compared with 572 million in Season 1's first week.

Season 1, which began in 2023, had earlier tallied 13.3 million global views in its first six days and became Disney Branded Television's top premiere, but Season 2—despite a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes—failed to match that early momentum. Nielsen data showed Season 2 was not in streaming TV's top 10 for the week of Dec. 15 to Dec. 21, FlixPatrol placed it second on Disney+'s Top 10 TV Shows behind Hulu's Tell Me Lies, and social tracking on Jan. 21 found other trailers trending ahead of the finale.

The series was renewed for Season 3 in March 2025 and the Season 2 finale included a clip promising a 2026 release, yet Season 3 is not slated to finish filming until March 2, 2026, leaving less post-production time. The episode also made several notable departures from Rick Riordan's books—changes to Thalia's backstory, altered uses of the Golden Fleece, and unexplained character recoveries—which the outlet said could concern viewers and make Season 3 a potentially decisive chapter for the adaptation.

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