Wednesday has been dethroned as the number one show on Netflix by a new Netflix original limited series Kaleidoscope, according to Forbes. Starring Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad, The Mandalorian), Kaleidoscope centers around the largest heist ever attempted, and the vengeance and betrayals that surround it. According to Deadline, The series is inspired by a real life story where seventy billion dollars went missing in downtown Manhattan during hurricane Sandy. 

Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega (The Fallout, X), follows the oldest Addams family  child, Wednesday Addams, as a new student at Nevermore while she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents. 

Kaleidoscope premiered on January 1. The series currently has a 52% rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and an audience score of 60%. The series takes a non-linear approach to storytelling spanned over eight episodes, and viewers are welcome to watch the episodes out of order. In order listed on Netflix, the episodes are titled “Green,” “Yellow,” “Violet,” “Orange,” “Blue,” “Red,” “Pink,” and “White.”

Wednesday premiered on November 23, 2022. The series currently has a 71% rating by critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and an audience score of 86%. Wednesday premiered with 341.23 million hours viewed in the first week, beating Netflix’s previous record holder Stranger Things 4 which debuted at 335 million hours viewed, according to Deadline. The series had remained at the number one spot on Netflix, until January 2 when Kaleidoscope took its number one spot. Wednesday currently sits at the number two spot on Netflix, staying in the top ten on Netflix and the top Neilsen streaming spot for the second week in a row, via Deadline. 

In addition to Esposito, the Kaleidoscope cast includes Rufus Sewell (Judy, Dark City), and Paz Vega (Spanglish, 10 Items or Less), Jai Courtney (Divergent, Suicide Squad), Tati Gabrielle (Uncharted, The 100), Rosaline Elbay (Ramy, Diamond Dust), Peter Mark Kendall (The Americans, Strange Angel), and Niousha Noor (The Night, Here and Now). 

In addition to Ortega, the Wednesday cast includes Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay), Jamie McShane (Bloodline, Gone Girl), Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Cast No Shadow), Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told), Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Dead of Night), Joy Sunday (The Beta Test, Dear White People), Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylines, Assassin), Moosa Mostafa (The Last Bus, Nativity Rocks!), Georgie Farmer (Evermoor, Treadstone), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, The Last House on the Left), Christina Ricci (Addams Family Values, Black Snake Moan), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, The Mask of Zorro), with  Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights, Traffic), Fred Arimisen (Big Mouth, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), and Isaac Ordonez (A Wrinkle in Time, Husky). 

Kaleidoscope and Wednesday are both available to stream on Netflix.