‘Dahmer’ is 660% more popular than Netflix’s next closest show

DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and its incredibly awkwardly titled tale cemented itself as one of Netflix’s most popular shows of the year and proved to be Netflix’s most popular debut season may be Any This year, we will display at the current pace. No, it doesn’t match Stranger Things season 4’s numbers, but in the past week he’s amassed 299.8 million hours, compared to nearly 200 million before that. So the show is nearing half a billion hours watched by Netflix viewers since its debut.

Nothing else comes close so far. In fact, Dahmer’s numbers increased with each passing week, and the competition dwindled.Darmer’s 300 million hours is Dynasty’s season 5 with 44.6 million hours played, 6.6 times the second place. Then things really go downhill. Fate: The Winx Saga season 2 has 26.4 million and Cobra Kai season 5 has 20.8 million. and so on. It shows that the gap between those shows can be large just because they have an order on Netflix’s top 10 list, and in this case, that’s why Dahmer has been planted at the top for so long.

If this was a different show, Dahmer would have already greenlit season 2, but as a miniseries with a very fixed ending, it doesn’t. A boost to the fortunes of Ryan Murphy and star Evan Peters, he’s no doubt Netflix is ​​about to submit him for Best Actor in a Limited Series Emmy (hopefully Niecy). also Nash).

Dahmer is a never-ending fount of controversy that many believe Netflix should never have made the show, and if so, should have routed some money to the victims’ families. , Netflix has sidestepped these controversies by simply ignoring them, and as far as I know, has not announced anything about how it plans to treat the show’s subject matter or contribute to the fund. There are dozens of true crime shows, both fictional and documentary…all of Hollywood.

But it’s the audience that makes this a hit. If no one is watching, you’re “teaching Netflix” about what it should and shouldn’t adapt to. But the opposite has happened, and despite the pushback, millions of subscribers have made it one of the most popular shows of the year. More projects like this will be encouraged.

When will interest in the show start to wane? Probably soon, but it certainly wasn’t last week.

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