Netflix Has a New Contender for Most-Watched Show Ever
The teen killer at the center of Adolescence is giving Jeffrey Dahmer a scare.
The hit new British series about a 13-year-old boy (Owen Cooper) who viciously murders his classmate has a lot of people talking—and watching. As TheWrap reports, Adolescence just knocked Ryan Murphy's Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story out of the number three spot on Netflix's list of most-watched (original) TV series of all time.It has been just over one month since the four-part drama arrived on Netflix on March 13, and it has already logged 124.2 million views. The only series standing in the way of Adolescence becoming the most-watched Netflix series ever are Stranger Things 4, which isn't too far ahead with just over 140 million views, and season 1 of Wednesday, which has been viewed a whopping 252.1 million times. Dahmer is now in fourth place, with 115.6 million views, while the first season of Bridgerton rounds out the top five with 113.3 million views.
Adolescence, which was co-created by star Stephen Graham and writer/playwright Jack Thorne (who is also behind Netflix's new Toxic Town), has done more than just become a TV hit—it's also igniting national debates about social media and toxic masculinity.
Shortly after the show dropped, it was mentioned in the House of Commons by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who watched it with his two children, and thought it should be used as a jumping off point for necessary changes by the Department of Education. That it's creating these conversations is thrilling to Thorne, who told The New York Times he would like to see social media banned for all children under the age of 16.
While Adolescence was planned as a one-season miniseries, its unexpected success has Graham and his wife/producing partner Hannah Walters (who also has a small part in the series) thinking about how they could expand the series into an anthology.
While Walters ruled out the idea of a prequel series, she remarked to Variety about how 'there's so much mileage in the one-shot and so much mileage in investing into human nature again and looking at something else.'
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