The supernatural series Wednesday broke the record for the most hours viewed in week for any English-language series 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. Squid Game is currently the all-time record holder with 571.8 million views in its peak week on Netflix, via Deadline. Netflix reports that Wednesday is currently in the top ten in 93 countries, No. 1 in 83 of them, and has been viewed in over 50 million households, according to Deadline.
The series follows the oldest child of the Addams family, Wednesday, as she attends Nevermore Academy and attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the murder mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago, via Deadline.
Wednesday stars Jenna Ortega (The Fallout, You) as Wednesday Addams, as well as 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), Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights, Traffic), Fred Arimisen (Big Mouth, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), and Isaac Ordonez (A Wrinkle in Time, Husky). The series is directed and executive produced by Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, The Corpse Bride), with creators and showrunners Miles Millar (Smallville, Spider-Man 2) and Alfred “Al” Gough (Smallville, Shanghai Noon), via Deadline
Wednesday is available to stream on Netflix worldwide.