Even before “Parasite,” a thriller about the class divide in South Korea, took off, there were signs that things had begun to shift for subtitled entertainment in the United States. Over the same period, as streaming services have replaced network and cable television, subtitles have also gained a stronger toehold on smaller screens, from cellphones to TV sets. Researchers credit the shift in part to two factors. It is the most popular streaming platform in the United States, with more than 60 million paid subscribers, and much of its original content is in languages other than English. More than 50 percent of the audiences for the Netflix shows “Dark,” which is in German, and “3%”, which is in Portuguese, are international.

Source: New York Times February 12, 2020 14:24 UTC