Two highly anticipated series - Wednesday and "Family Man" returned strongly, and during its premiere, it achieved outstanding results on its respective streaming platforms.Meanwhile, the animated film Kpop Exorcist continues to perform well in the summer schedule.

According to internal Netflix data, the first half of Wednesday's season 2 reached an astonishing 50 million views in the first week (i.e., 201.6 million hours of viewing divided by its total duration of 4 hours and 2 minutes).This is the highest number of views on Netflix in the first week since the first season of the first episode was launched in November 2022.At that time, the total number of views in the first season was 50.1 million, slightly higher than the performance in this half quarter.

It is worth mentioning that the number of views of the first season climbed to 60.3 million in the second week after the broadcast, becoming one of the most successful opening cases of Netflix's English drama series in recent years.Currently, among all language dramas, the first week's playback record is still maintained by the second season of "Squid Game", with the first week's playback volume reaching 68 million times.

After more than two years of separation, the return of Wednesday also led to the first season returning to the Netflix hot list.During the week of August 4-10, the first season of Wednesday won 8.6 million views worldwide, ranking second on the English drama list.

On the other hand, on Hulu and Disney platforms, "Family Man" finally ushered in a new season after 15 years of suspension, with 4.4 million views in the first week.This makes it the most viewed work of the first season of adult animations launched on both platforms in the past five years.The highly acclaimed comeback hit the top of Hulu’s hit series on August 4 and has since been firmly ranked among the top five.

This long-lost enthusiasm for returning has also led to the audience's re-watching craze for the past few seasons.Hulu said that since the beginning of this year, the "Family Man" series has been broadcast for 26 million hours, an increase of 41% over the previous five months.The entire series has so far exceeded one billion hours of playback records on Hulu and Disney.

The animated movie "Kpop Exorcist" continues its box office miracle, jumping to the second place in the historical viewing rankings among all Netflix's English movies (calculated based on playback data within 91 days).The video was released only 52 days ago, with 184.6 million views, and 25.9 million views last week.Since the week of June 22, the film has been viewed by no less than 22.7 million times per week, showing extremely strong market resilience.

While the core audience may decline as students return to school, causing a decline in playback volume in the coming weeks, Kpop Exorcist is very close to the 230.9 million views of Netflix historical viewing champion Red Wanted, and is expected to surpass it in the near future.