‘Wednesday’ doesn’t stop climbing positions. While it recently positioned itself as the most-watched English-language series in a single week on Netflix, now Variety highlights it it became the third most watched series in English in the history of the platform.
If it continues at this pace, “Wednesday” could further climb the podium and surpass “DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” in its second place and even reach the top of the list: The fourth season of “Stranger Things”, which garnered more than a billion views in its first 28 days. The reason for this is that the season premiere of the Duffer brothers’ series was not as successful as that of the Addams daughter’s series, which has more than 130 million views in the same time. Like this, It wouldn’t be strange if within two weeks, on its first month anniversary, ‘Wednesday’ managed to rise as the most watched English-language series on the platform.
And it would be no less. The series has received positive reviews, especially for its protagonist: Jenna Ortega gives everything to create a macabre but humane Wednesday who, after passing through the Nunca Más boarding school, must master his psychic abilities by facing two great challenges: solving an old crime and learning how to be a teenager.
A scene with a lot of history
Part of the success of the Netflix series is due to a scene that has gone viral: the particular dance on Wednesday, which the actress choreographed herself based on archival footage of goths dancing in clubs in the 80s and many other references ; among them, Lisa Loring, the first girl to play Wednesday Addams. However, Despite the success of the dance, which exploded on TikTok, Ortega is not as happy with the result as the rest of the world: “Probably could have done a little better”but when he asked to redo the scene they didn’t have time.
The choreography is even more valuable, not only because the song had been given to him just a week before, but because of the condition it was in: “It’s crazy because it was my first day with COVID, so it was awful to record”. The actress says that while she usually doesn’t get sick, her whole body ached: “It felt like a car had hit me and a little imp was in my throat scratching the walls of my esophagus”he tells in an interview for NME. “Between takes they gave me medicine while we waited for the result to come back positive”. Maybe the pain in moving and the sickly pallor are the keys to showing off in this choreography that will go down in history as one of the most memorable and imitated dances, in the purest ‘Pulp Fiction’ style.
* If you haven’t seen it yet, you can see all episodes of “Wednesday” on Netflix.
Source: E Cartelera
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