Well, it finally happened. After two weeks, romantic comedy Nobody Wants This has dropped to second place on Netflix’s top 10 list.
The show that replaced it is not the high-profile fantasy series The Witcher, but rather a comedy special from Leanne Morgan, Unspeakable Things. Morgan is the creator and star of Leanne, a Netflix comedy that has already been renewed for a second season. This is also her second comedy special with Netflix, and she’s clearly an important part of Netflix’s comedy arsenal.
Nobody Wants This was just renewed by Netflix for season 3 yesterday. That’s no great surprise given its performance, and it’s rare you see a comedy spend a full two weeks at #1 on Netflix. I’m hard-pressed to remember something similar happening in recent memory. The Adam Brody/Kristen Bell series is highly scored and feels like something that could run indefinitely, if need be.
The rest of the list has WWE RAW down to #3 after its live airing, and unscripted series Selling Sunset and Squid Game: The Challenge at #5 and #6. A big story on the list is that The Witcher is down to #4, never reaching #1 on the service despite being a show Netflix once hoped could be its own Game of Thrones. It’s a very poor performance for the new season, which suffered an overly-long gap between seasons 3 and 4 and controversially recast its lead, replacing Henry Cavill with Liam Hemsworth. The season is the lowest rated by both critics and audiences, but speaking as a viewer, I actually don’t think it’s that bad. It could even be the best season since season 1, surprisingly enough, but it would seem most disagree.
Comedy specials never last all that long on top of the Netflix Top 10 list because they’re one-off programs that are no more than an hour. Watch it, move on. That means that Nobody Wants This may actually head back to #1 for a longer reign, though new shows may come along and prevent that from happening. Scrolling down to the movie list for a minute, I see that KPop Demon Hunters is back at #2, which is after I saw it at #5 a few days ago, dropping out of the top 3 for the first time in ages. But there it is, rising once more, and it continues to further its lead for every broken Netflix record it’s already smashed through.
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