In just twelve days, the mystery comedy series "Wednesday" produced by Tim Burton is already one of the five most successful Netflix series in history. The series, starring Jenna Ortega (20) in the lead role of the Addams Family's daughter of the same name, is poised to become the most watched of all if things continue as they have been.

The series is already "Netflix's third most popular English-language TV series," according to the streaming service - behind "Stranger Things 4" and "Dahmer."

With another 411.3 million hours streamed over the past week (November 28 to December 4), the production broke its own record of 341.2 million hours viewed in the first week. Netflix now counts a total of 752.5 million streaming hours for the eight-part series that started on November 23. This emerges from the weekly hit lists of the streaming service, which were published on Tuesdays.

Before "Wednesday", which is not even available online for 14 days, there is now only the South Korean series "Squid Game" on Netflix, which in 2021 in its first 28 days (the streaming service does not publish any other figures) reached a good 1.65 Billions hours came, and the fourth season of "Stranger Things" (1.35 billion hours), as well as "Dahmer - Monsters: The Story of Jeffrey Dahmer" (856.2 million hours) and the fifth season of the Spanish series "Money Heist " (792.2 million hours).

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If you divide the number of hours streamed by the length of the series (6.8 hours), almost 115 million households worldwide have already streamed the series "Wednesday", as calculated by Netflix.

The dark series explores the life of the Addams Family's daughter. A dance by the main actress, which went viral on networks such as Tiktok (

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