The digital streaming platform Netflix continues to make a name for itself with the productions it includes in its library. Now, Wednesday, which met with the audience in the past weeks and became very popular, broke another new record.
Wednesday passed 1 billion hours watched!
A total of four series on Netflix exceeded 1 billion hours of viewing. These; Stranger Things about a group of teenagers, korean Squid Game and Dahmer. So much so that when these productions made a splash on social media when they debuted, they broke record after record.
Now Wednesday is the fourth drama to surpass the threshold with 1.03 billion hours of views, and it has also been watched in more than 150 million homes. The production in question is the second most popular series on Netflix worldwide.
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Published on November 16, Wednesday is also very popular on social media. So much so that while there are millions of likes on Instagram with the hashtag #wednesday, the content shared with the hashtag #wednesdayaddams on TikTok has been viewed more than 18 billion times in total. However, the song Goo Good Muck used in the production showed an impressive rise, with more than 15 million views on Spotify.
Not content with the record, Wednesday was nominated for the best comedy series at the annual Golden Globe Awards. Jenna Ortega, who also took the lead role in the cast, was nominated for best actress.
Wednesday plot and cast
Wednesday is based on the character of the same name in the award-winning The Addams Family. This clever, cynical and resentful character changes schools many times because of what he’s been through. Finally crossing paths with Nevermore Academy, Wednesday gains new friends and foes.
The cast of the series, produced by MGM Television, includes Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Erika Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Emma Myers, Christina Ricci, Georgie Farmer and Ajax Petropolis.
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