According to Deadline, Dahmer: The Monster - The Jeffrey Dahmer Story has quickly become one of the biggest TV series ever on the Netflix Netflix streaming platform.
The show stars Evan Peters, the "X-Men" actor who played "Quicksilver" in his role as notorious serial killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. The show reached a staggering 299.84 million hours watched in the first week after Netflix went live.
This made the show the second most-watched English-language TV series on Netflix in its first week after season 4 of Stranger Things . Stranger Things season 4 premiered at 301 million hours, and Part 2 premiered at 335 million hours.
The series also surpassed season 2 of Bridgetown, which had 252 million hours of viewership.
Just 12 days later, "Dahmer" is the 9th most-watched series on Netflix with 496.05 million hours watched. At present, it has been called "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things" as the most successful original work in Netflix's history.
averaged 8.8 hours per household, and Dahmer: Monster was watched by 56 million households in less than two weeks.
The 10-episode series, although Peters plays a serial killer, is mainly told from the perspective of the victim, and explores the incompetence and indifference of the police, which has led to the so-called " Milwaukee monster" The demons were able to go on a relentless killing spree for years. The series dramatized at least 10 real-life situations where Dahmer was nearly arrested but was eventually released.
