Wednesday overtakes Dahmer to become Netflix’s second most popular English TV series of ALL TIME
Jenna Ortega’s new show Wednesday is now Netflix’s second most popular English-language TV series of all time.
The series has overtaken Dahmer- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story for the second place spot, according to Variety.
The Tim Burton directed series is now also the third program on the platform to have garnered over a billion hours viewed within a month. Squid Game and Stranger Things 4 remain the only two other programs to have achieved this distinction.
Fan favorite: Jenna Ortega’s new show Wednesday is now Netflix’s second most popular English-language TV series of all time
Rankings on the Most Popular list are determined by the number of hours a title garners within its first 28 days on the platform.
The Evan Peters led series achieved 856.2 million hours in its first 28 days, whereas Wednesday still has another week to reach even more viewers.
It does appear unlikely that Wednesday will beat Stranger Things 4 in the English-language TV show ranking with Wednesday needing some catching up to meet the sci-fi series. Stranger Things 4 also runs over the course of 13 hours, while Wednesday clocks in at a total of 6.8 hours.
Wednesday, however, has been watched by more households than Stranger Things in its first 28 days. Already, 150 million households have tuned into Wednesday.
Surpassed Dahmer: The Evan Peters led series achieved 856.2 million hours in its first 28 days, whereas Wednesday still has another week to reach even more viewers
Whoa! The Tim Burton directed series is now also the third program on the platform to have garnered over a billion hours viewed within a month
The series has also beaten the newly-released documentary Harry & Meghan in terms of viewership rankings.
That docu-series landed in second on Netflix’s weekly rankings with 81.6 million hours logged within four days since its December 8 premiere.
It is Netflix’s biggest documentary debut of all time.
The new Netflix series Wednesday stars Jenna as the iconic Addams Family character, a role previously inhabited by Christina Ricci.
Still at the top: It does appear unlikely that Wednesday will beat Stranger Things 4 in the English-language TV show ranking with Wednesday needing a lot of catching up to reach the sci-fi series
In a recent interview, Jenna revealed she did not seek advice from Christina on how to play the character.
‘Our show has super powers and outcasts and evil ghost pilgrims,’ Jenna said in an MTV News interview with co-star Emma Myers, who plays her roommate, Enid.
‘I think when [Christina] was on set, neither one of us said “Wednesday” once to each other,’ Jenna explained.
Coming on top: The series has also beaten the newly-released documentary Harry & Meghan in terms of numbers
‘I don’t think she wanted to get in the way of my performance and feel like she was overbearing,’ adding, ‘They’re two very different people, our Wednesdays.’
Christina has gone on to do a variety of projects in the three decades since she played Wednesday and Jenna said she didn’t think it would be polite to bring up the topic.
‘I felt like I didn’t want to pull up something that she did 30 years ago.’
‘For the sake of my own benefit.. I didn’t want to rip her off and I didn’t want to be too much like her.’
Hit series: The new Netflix series Wednesday stars Jenna as the iconic Addams Family character, a role previously inhabited by Christina Ricci
The streaming show is a crime thriller that takes place at the Nevermore Academy, a boarding school for outcasts such as sirens, werewolves and gorgons.
Wednesday is sent there against her will, and ends up trying to solve a string of murders that have taken place near the school.
Christina stars as a ‘normie’ member of the faculty and house mom for Wednesday’s dorm.
Sharing the small screen with Jenna and Christina are Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman as Morticia and Gomez Addams. Gwendoline Christie stars as Nevemore’s head mistress.
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