Wednesday’s little one is much less stuffed with woe at present, because the masterful new Tim Burton-directed and produced sequence managed to do the beforehand unthinkable — it bumped Stranger Things from its Netflix pedestal.
The new sequence, based mostly on Charles Addams’ traditional cartoon, dropped on Netflix on Wednesday, November 23, and has since pulled in 341.2 million hours of viewing, in line with the streamer’s inner knowledge measurement. This beats Stranger Things’ 335 million viewing hours tracked throughout the launch of Stranger Things 4 from May 30 to June 5, which beforehand held the viewing document for English language Netflix sequence.
The total document holder remains to be Squid Game, which introduced in a whopping 571.76 million hours seen throughout its preliminary launch week in 2021 and adopted that up with two extra weeks on the 400-hour mark.
Wednesday additionally hit the highest spot on Netflix for the week in 83 international locations, tying Stranger Things.
The sequence follows the Addams household’s precocious and uncompromising daughter as she is pressured off to boarding faculty at Nevermore Academy, the place her dad and mom first met and fell in love. Teenage misanthrope that Wednesday is, she’s sad about this new growth, and, in fact, offended along with her mom. She’s additionally starting to undergo startling visions which will or could not predict the longer term.
The black comedy follows a homicide thriller, an unlikely friendship, a budding love story, and a tiny city stuffed with secrets and techniques, werewolves, serpents, vampires, and monsters.
While there hasn’t formally been an announcement a couple of renewal for Season 2, Netflix could be unlikely to surrender on what has proved to be one in every of their largest hits but, constructed on a beloved franchise. The crew is actually open to coming again for extra, doubtless with extra of the Addams household characters taking up bigger roles.
Wednesday, Season 1, Streaming Now, Netflix