Streamers are always trying to tell you about the records they’ve broken recently, at least in part because it distracts from how rarely they release more concrete and verifiable viewer data. (Much easier to drag out a new trophy every week than to reveal numbers that can then be easily compared to past and future performance, after all.) Still, they do occasionally catch us off guard with one of these things—like the reveal today that Tom Hardy and Guy Ritchie’s new show MobLand has become the most watched global premiere in Paramount+’s history.

Don’t get us wrong: MobLand is slicker than any project that originally started life as a Ray Donovan spin-off has any right to be, heavily leveraging Hardy and co-stars Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren to try to set itself apart from being Yet Another Crime Show. But that doesn’t automatically explain why it’s blown all those various Yellowstone spin-offs and Star Trek shows out of the water, viewership-wise; all we can figure is that people just really like hearing Tom Hardy deploy his latest Weird Little Voice. (This one isn’t that weird on the Tom Hardy Scale Of Fucked Up Little Dude Voices, but we for sure had to flip on the closed captioning, just in case.) The series reportedly scored 2.2 million global viewers on its premiere day, March 30, with a lot of focus put in official press materials on what an international success this whole thing apparently was. (The U.K., U.S., Canada, and Australia all got the series at the same time; it’ll debut in several other countries in late May.)

Ritchie’s had a nice little time of it in TV lately, having previously gotten some good traction off of his recent series The Gentlemen on Netflix. MobLand—which centers on Brosnan and Mirren as a married pair of crime bosses, with Hardy as their stalwart enforcer—was created by Ronan Bennett, who’s writing or co-writing each episode.