It shouldn’t come as a shocker that the newest installment of Ryan Murphy‘s Monster anthology has taken over the Netflix charts.
After the, nicely, monster efficiency that Dahmer put up in 2022, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story debuted on September 18, placing up 12.3M views in its opening weekend. That’s a pleasant exhibiting for the nine-episode true crime drama, although it couldn’t fairly maintain a candle to its predecessor.
Because the launch of Dahmer, Netflix has adjusted the best way that it stories viewership information. On the time, it reported Dahmer‘s efficiency in hours seen, of which the collection put up 196.2M in its first weekend (it launched on a Thursday).
Netflix now divides hours seen by runtime to get “views,” which might’ve translated to round 21.8M views for Dahmer in a comparable period of time.
This doesn’t essentially imply that the collection received’t choose up steam within the coming weeks, although it is a sign that maybe viewers anticipation is shipped fairly as robust this time round. Netflix is about to launch a documentary on the case, that includes new interviews with Erik and Lyle Menendez, on October 7, which may even doubtless give this present a lift.
Simply as with Dahmer, the Menendez Story has drawn some criticism for its portrayal of the brothers’ lives and 1989 homicide of their mother and father José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
Murphy has already responded to the criticism, saying there have been “many, many views” that have been included into the present.
Elsewhere on the Netflix charts, The Excellent Couple is nonetheless going robust at No. 2 in TV, whereas Uglies took the highest spot for movie with 26.8M views — making that the most-watched title of the week.
