Wednesday, the new spin-off series from ‘The Addams Family’ appears to combine the themes of popular storylines such as ‘Harry Potter,’ and ‘Stranger Things’ — a recipe contributing to the show’s initial success.
Currently, the only shows with more streams than “Wednesday” are the South Korean series “Squid Game,” which clocked up a good 1.65 billion hours in its first 28 days in 2021.
According to Netflix’s weekly statistics list, the streaming service has reported a total of 752.5 million streaming hours for the eight-part series ‘Wednesday’; which means that an estimated 110 million households worldwide have already streamed it.
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After less than two weeks after its launch on November 23, “Wednesday” already became one of the five most successful Netflix series in history. If things continue as they are, it could soon become the most-watched series in Netflix history.
The Addams Family, with the character of the daughter Wednesday, was created by US comic artist Charles Addams. His series of cartoons, published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period from 1938 until his death, featured a satirical and morbid version of the ideal of the perfect American family.
Since then, a TV series (1964-1966) and a feature film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (1991), along with sequels, as well as new computer-animated films (in 2019 and 2021) have followed.
Now the new take on the cult classic is preparing to become perhaps the most successful series in Netflix history.
