“Wednesday” breaks records on Netflix by becoming the most watched English-language series in a single week

‘Wednesday’ has only been on Netflix for a week and has already become a hit and a platform favorite. The Addams Family spin-off broke a ratings record and topped the podium as the most-watched English-language series on Netflix in just one week. The new project directed and produced by Tim Burton logged 341.2 million hours watched in its opening week. All according to the data of the platform.

Jenna Ortega, actress who brings Wednesday to life in fiction, decisively defeated the holder of the title of most watched English-language series on Netflix: the fourth season of ‘Stranger Things’, which amassed 335 million hours of viewing during its second week on the list.

The record achieved by ‘Wednesday’ is particularly striking because it was achieved in just one week, unlike ‘Stranger Things’ with its fourth season, which garnered a lot of views, but it was in its second week of release after the wake of the premiere. The same goes for “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” which dominated the Netflix Top 10 for weeks, amassing 300 million viewing hours, but those numbers came in its second week, not its week. of opening.

However, ‘Wednesday’ failed to surpass the worldwide phenomenon that was ‘The Squid Game’, and which still holds the all-time record for most watched series in a single week, garnering a whopping 571.8 million hours viewed. Despite this, the Wednesday Addams adventure-mystery series reached #1 in 83 countries, a number that speaks for Burton’s newfound success.

Will there be a second season?

If you are an absolute fan of ‘Wednesday’ and wondering if there will be a second season, we can guess that with the numbers it managed in just its first week of release, it is very likely that Netflix will welcome its renewal. The series was originally announced as limited, but showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar confirmed they have many stories and “multiple seasons” sketched and thought, in the event that the platform chooses to renew the story of the funniest and most macabre family in television drama.

In an interview with Variety, the showrunners opened up about this topic and They’ve made it clear that they always think outside the box so if it was up to the creators, we’d definitely have a second season of ‘Wednesday’. “We’re always looking to the future and when we sit down to create a show, ideally you want to think about multiple seasons. It’s never anticipated, but this is the anticipation that hopefully the show will be successful. So you always plan at least three or four seasons of possible storylines for characters. It can evolve and change. Often you want to see what characters or cast members stand out and who you like to write for. So you want to keep it open and organic enough to change and evolve but, admittedly, we have a pretty clear idea about what we want to do in the next few seasons.”Miller explained.

‘Wednesday’ is available on Netflix and consists of 8 chapters with a duration of 45 minutes per episode.