Die zweite Staffel von „Wednesday“ übertrifft „Stranger Things“ bei den Netflix-Zuschauerzahlen

Wednesday is a massively better serial that fits well into the multi-season construct.

We have nostalgia from the first season of Stranger Things, which was an absolute masterpiece. But the way the Duffers built the characters and crafted their arcs and the overall mythology was weak. It’s as if they didn’t know what the through-line would be until the Fourth Season.

Stranger Things should have been an anthology from the start. They never really did much with the characters, and it would have been perfect if they’d ended the original story at Season One and picked up with a new cast and a new decade for Season Two.

Wednesday, Enid, and Morticia are much better characters and were perfectly cast.

Season Two of Stranger Things had the same massive drop off in scope, imagination, and impact that Season Two of The Walking Dead did. They were able to gradually improve, but it did irreparable damage to the overall trajectory of the show. It went from saving Will from a dark and imposing netherworld to running from a pack of „demo dogs“. That’s a huge drop in mystique and far less climactic.

Wednesday is peak Tim Burton, the casting is sublime, and it just works better as a series. The characters all go through meaningful character arcs that are well written.

But who am I to judge? It still made Netflix billions of dollars and cemented their position as the top streamer.

One was released in August and another two months ago. You can’t compare the numbers until ST 5 reaches 91 days from release which is what Netflix looks at for their „all time charts“.

If you look at the same tracking period length post release then ST 5 has higher viewership than Wednesday s2. The difference isn’t big but Stranger Things is ahead.