HBO Max’s international charts are normally crowded with franchise consolation watches and fresh-release momentum, however this one is completely different. Genndy Tartakovsky’s brutal, practically dialogue-free survival saga performs like a status animation dare with minimal exposition, most visible storytelling, and lengthy stretches the place emotion is carried by motion, sound design, and uncooked violence. The present has been trending constantly since Novemberand the streaming come-up appears to be the strongest now that Season 3 is airing.
The present premiered in 2019 and has constructed its repute as one in every of grownup animation’s boldest style hybrids. It amalgamates fantasy, horror, and motion into one thing much more intense than its caveman and dinosaur team-up premise suggests.
As per FlixPatrol, Primal is holding across the candy spot of #8 place and having fun with constant placements throughout nations from Australia and Armenia to Spain, Ukraine, and far of Latin America (together with repeated top-10 holds in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Panama). That form of stability issues greater than a one-day spike. And even when it’s not hitting #1, it’s refusing to fall off. In Germany, Primal was just lately trending at #7 and #8 on the Apple TV Retailer in Germany.
‘Primal’ Has Grown to Develop into an Animated Cult Heavyweight
The important thing context behind the surge is that Primal is now a 3-season trendy cult heavyweight, with 27 episodes whole and a 3rd season that premiered in January 2026. It additionally carries an 8.7/10 on IMDb and a 100% Tomatometer / 89% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes — and that’s important and viewers validation that helps clarify why this darkish sci-fi fantasy masterpiece retains clawing its manner again into the dialog.
Primal Season 3 picks up after Spear’s obvious dying, bringing him again in a darker, supernatural flip as an undead model of himself. The brand new season follows Spear as he regains fragments of reminiscence and fights by brutal new threats whereas trying to find Fang. It’s nonetheless the similar visual-firstdialogue-light storytelling, however with an even bigger mythic edgedying, resurrection, and vengeance now shaping the journey as a lot as uncooked survival.
Primal is at present trending on HBO Max. Primal Season 3, Episode 8 will air on March 1, 2026. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates.
- Launch Date
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October 8, 2019
- Community
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Grownup Swim
- Showrunner
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Genndy Tartakovsky
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Laëtitia Eïdo
Mira (voice)
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Aaron LaPlante
Spear (voice)