Pictured: Unstable, Murder Mystery 2, The Night Agent
Welcome to your weekly roundup of the biggest stories from Netflix’s top 10 hourly figures for the week ending April 2, 2023. This one will be a bit smaller.
Every Tuesday, Netflix updates its Top 10 Stats page with 40 new figures per hour for the top movies and shows from the past seven days. If you want to easily browse the top 10 hourly data, visit our tool.
We’ve also just released a roundup of Netflix’s biggest hits (and flops) of Q1 2023, so check it out if you’re looking for what has and hasn’t hit in 2023.
Note: In this report of Netflix hours watched from March 27, 2023 to April 2, 2023, we will use «Full View Equivalent» or CVE, expressed in millions. That means we divide the hours watched advertised by Netflix by the running time of the movies or series. It allows for better comparisons between movies and series, but it is not an audience metric. It is the minimum number of viewings if they were all complete from the first second to the last of the movie or season.
1. murder mystery 2 it is a great success.
Adam Sandler delivers, again. With murder mystery 2Sandman is touching the stars with the fifth best release for any Netflix movie opening on a Friday behind movies like red notice, don’t look upeither The Adam Project.
Murder Mystery 2 CVE vs. Debut Audience biggest film debuts
Now, there are two things that can work against you in the long run. First, it’s a sequel; sequels usually start off very strong and fade faster than other movies. So, it’s a very short movie (1 hour and 20 minutes not including end titles), so on a metric based on hours watched, it could drop down the charts quickly. But we’ll continue to review it while we can using the CVE metric.
2. Unstable It’s probably already cancelled.
Positioned at the end of March, we can safely assume that Netflix had high hopes for the father-son sitcom. Unstable. But these hopes were dashed with a dismal release of just 3.6 million CVEs through the first four days.
That’s the kind of release you don’t recover from, and I may be proven wrong in the days and weeks ahead, but for now, it’s likely to be a quick cancellation.
3. the agent of the night it is doing wonders after 11 days.
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A series that launched very well and is still doing very well is the agent of the night. Already renewed for a second season, it had a great launch and best week two and is currently sitting at 47.5 million CVEs.
Audience for The Night Agent vs. Wednesday, Dahmer and The Watcher
As outlined in the chart above, it’s not exactly the stratospheric launch of the likes of Wednesday either squid gamebut next week, we will know if it is more The vigilant either Dahmer-size of success.
In any case, that gamble paid off in a big way, and the series is a great watch. Thus, a great success story to close the first quarter of 2023.