Netflix's "Wednesday" had a hell of a Wednesday-Sunday debut

She's creepy and weird, mysterious and scary, and all together super popular. "Wednesday," Netflix's teen comedy series about the favorite member of the "Addams Family," broke the streaming service's record for most hours viewed in a week for an English-language series.

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According to figures shared by Netflix, over 50 million households watched 341.23 million hours of "Wednesday" in its first week of availability, since its debut on Wednesday, November 23 (rightly so) until Sunday, November 27. "Stranger Things" Season 4, which previously held the record with 335.01 million hours recorded from May 30 to June 5. Impressively, the "Stranger Things" number comes from a full seven-day tracking week, while the "Wednesday" numbers include just five days of viewing. The long Thanksgiving weekend certainly helped.

Of course, while "Wednesday" reigns supreme among English-language shows, "Squid Game" remains Netflix's best show of all time. The Korean series had its biggest week from September 27 to October 3, 2021, when it recorded a staggering 571.76 million hours of viewing.

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Starring Jenna Ortega in the lead role, "Wednesday" sees the daughter of the Addams Family enroll in Nevermore Academy for Monstrous Outcasts, where she makes new friends, develops psychic abilities, and investigates a series of murders in the town of Jericho, Vermont. The series also stars Gwendoline Christie, Jamie McShane, Percy Hynes White, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Naomi J Ogawa, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Riki Lindhome and Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday's character in two movies released. in 1991 and 1993. The show also features Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán, Fred Armisen, and Isaac Ordonez in recurring roles as other members of the Addams Family.

"Wednesday" is presented by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who produce with Tim Burton, Steve Stark and Andrew Mittman of 1.21 Entertainment, Kevin Miserocchi of Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, Jonathan Glickman and Kayla Alpert of Glickmania, Gail Berman, Tommy Harper, and Kevin Lafferty. Burton directed four of the eight episodes of the first season. The series has yet to be renewed for a season 2, but its big debut looks promising for the future.

Since its release, "Wednesday" has received mixed reviews, with many critics praising Ortega's portrayal of the character, but criticizing the writing as derivative of other teen shows. In his review, IndieWire TV reviewer Ben Travers wrote: "As far as the macabre goes, Wednesday (and, more so, 'Wednesday') is all talk and little action - a well-rounded character hammered into the rectangular icon on your Netflix home screen, by an algorithm designed to conform.”

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