The historic success of ‘DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ continues to bring joy to Netflix. Already last week it was one of the most watched series on the platform of all time and now it has just broken another record by achieving the best third week of all time for an English-language Netflix series.
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Specifically, ‘DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ has added 205.33 million hours in its third week, a figure that not even titles like ‘The Bridgertons’, ‘Stranger Things’ or ‘The Witcher’ had achieved during the same period. You have to go to the 571.76 marked by ‘The Squid Game’ to see something like that, hence the record does not apply to a Netflix series in general.
This raises the total from ‘DAHMER: Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ to the 701.37 million hours played in 19 days, becoming the second most watched English series so far. It lags behind ‘Stranger Things 4’, but it has a bit of a trick, as this series premiered in two different batches and Netflix took into account the first 28 days of both.
I am clear that even on Netflix they did not expect a bombshell of these characteristics, because at the time it almost gave the feeling that they were premiering the series a little to get rid of it. Now we will have to see how long it takes to order a new season focused on another real murderer. In the meantime, I remind you that this week ‘Vigilante’, the new television thriller by Ryan Murphy.