‘Wednesday’ Dethroned In Netflix’s Top 10 List By The Same Show Twice

There has been a battle between just two shows on Netflix for the entire past month, with nothing else seeming to come close to the two of them. That would be the power struggle between Wednesday and docuseries Harry & Meghan.

Wednesday, the new megahit from Netflix, has been #1 on the service for most of the past two months, but it’s been knocked off its top spot twice now, and both times it’s been by Harry & Meghan. Wednesday is currently on its way to a billion hours viewed, making it the third Netflix series to do that this year alone after Dahmer and Stranger Things season 4, a breakout year for Netflix IP. No season 2 has been announced for Wednesday yet, but it’s a forgone conclusion and the show has roughly zero risk of cancellation with that kind of performance, even at Netflix which is notorious for its often inexplicable axings.

And speaking of cancelations, Harry & Meghan continue their war of words against the Royal Family, and the reason the show was able to unseat Wednesday twice was because the documentary series aired in two, three-episode chunks, and the last three episodes were said to be even more explosive than the first, with accounts of Prince William yelling at Harry over his decision to leave the UK with his wife. The show has not been well received by critics on the whole and has been review bombed by angry royal-sympathetic audiences, but it has been widely watched. Netflix has reported that Harry & Meghan is their strongest debut for a documentary in service history.

Elsewhere on the list, it remains to be seen if new entry The Recruit starring Netflix fan-favorite Noah Centineo will be able to pass up either of these two. The show has decent reviews and a solid debut at #3.

Too Hot to Handle has a new season further down the chart at #5, indicating Netflix’s foray into lots of reality shows starring hot people may be starting to wane a bit. Firefly Lane reached #2 behind Wednesday for a while for its second season, and it remains to be seen if that’s a good enough performance to be picked up for a third. Something called “A Storm for Christmas” is currently #10, a limited Scandinavian series that looks…pretty bizarre.

We’ll see if Wednesday can come back for one more run at the top spot, or if its reign has finally been ended for good by a pair of royals.

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