Worn by Jenna Ortega, the Netflix series dedicated to Wednesday Addams has met with significant success. To the point of competing Stranger Things in terms of hearing.
The meeting between Tim Burton and the Addams family was unexpected (or rather: we wanted it without knowing it), but it quickly won over a huge part of the Netflix audience. wednesday has been available since November 23, 2022 and has still not left the Top 1 when we write these lines, November 30.
This launch is so successful that Netflix has just communicate about numbers : wednesday was reportedly watched for 341.2 million hours in its first week on the platform. More than 50 million households have already launched the series to date.
Record broken after Stranger Things
This grants the hours watched record at launch, for a series in Englishat wednesday. The previous series holding this position was Stranger Thingswith its recent Season 4 racking up 335.01 million viewing hours in its first week.
The series directed by Tim Burton, and created by the showrunners of Smallvillethus accumulates a few more hours — even though Stranger Things had already been well established for several years. Remember, however, that we are talking about the launch week here.
Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday, already a pop culture icon?
The success of wednesday is largely carried by its heroine, who manages to be as impassive, gloomy, as endearing. Although the character isn’t strictly speaking realistic, certain aspects of his behavior echo character types that are rarely represented on screen – notably introversion or even any form of difference that creates a gap with the rest of the group. Especially since Wednesday is worn by Jenna Ortega in a significantly successful way: she does not blink once in the series.
As a result, the phenomenon has also developed in TikTok trends: for several days, the for you page is filled with cosplays and interpretations of the character, including his already cult dance in the series.
