With the exception of maybe Elon Musk and a handful of other megalomaniacs, it’s hard to imagine that there could be a worse boss to have than Donald Trump — but, oh, just think of the stories. And if you happen to be Desiree Thompson Sayle, a White House aide who served at the pleasure of the 45th president, you’d have a whopper of a memory and possibly a mountain of chiropractor bills.
As Raw Story reports, based on a feature that ran in The Washington Post, the final days of Trump’s presidency were an absolute sh*t show. As the White House was being readied for its shiny new occupants, the outgoing president — who still has not conceded the 2020 election — was learning that there are limits to what the U.S. government will pay for. And footing the bill to move a 300-pound portrait of said president (nope, that’s not it above) from Washington, D.C. to Palm Beach, Florida was not one of them. A few months after Joe Biden was sworn in, Sayle was asked to assist.
The Washington Post obtained documents that traced Sayle’s attempts to get this obnoxiously oversized monstrosity moved with other Trump belongings with the help of the General Services Administration. In April 2021, Sayle sent an email to the GSA asking for their help in transporting an “enormous” portrait of the former president, which was six-foot-eight-inches tall and weighed almost as much as Trump himself.
“I’m sorry to ask,” Sayle wrote. “This is a weird one!”
As the art had been gifted to Trump following his presidency, it was considered a personal belonging and therefore not something the GSA handles.
Several months later, Sayle sent another email in which she shared that she planned to move the painting using her personal vehicle. “We are loading the large portrait received after the 21st on a Penske truck to transport to my house so I can put it on my moving van,” she wrote.
Though there’s no email confirming its safe delivery, we’ll assume no art thieves had the audacity — or upper body strength — to make off with the piece while it made the 1,000-mile trek south.
Florida has been a bad boy to the dominatrix community.
A dominatrix, known only as Mistress, attended a City Commission meeting in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, asking the councilpeople to spend $250,000 “to support doms and subs in Broward County [by building] a dungeon, created for us, by us, the taxpayers and voting citizens.” Mistress, flanked by two accomplices who looked like extras in a Lady Gaga music video, hijacked the meeting following a no-doubt riveting discussion about a “solid waste management” contract.
One of the regular items on the commission’s agenda Tuesday included debate about a $906,500 contract for solid waste management. She explained that she was “neutral” regarding the waste management contract, but “found it interesting” that the commission was willing to spend almost $1 million “to hide your secrets down the drain, hiding that condom I know you used to cheat on your spouse with.”
Mistress concluded her brief, well-reasoned statement, “Do not let this glamorous look distract you from doing your duty to take my demand. I look forward to spanking each and every one of you at the new esteemed dungeon. You are dismissed.”
The spectators seemed pretty chill about the whole thing, while one of the commissioners wished Mistress and her friends a happy holiday, which is nice. Here’s an idea: why not combine the two? A waste processing plant that’s also a sex cauldron (I thought they closed that place down). There are probably a few subs who would enjoy that.
Here’s video from the meeting:
At last night’s Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting, “Mistress” spoke during public comment to propose that $250,000 of a $1 million solid waste management contract go “to support doms and subs in Broward County to build a dungeon.” #BecauseFloridapic.twitter.com/VI2FHVuU7B
After teasing the featured guest stars for her Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party NBC Special while appearing on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon earlier this month, the full lineup for Miley Cyrus’ second annual NYE bash has now been officially announced.
For starters, Cyrus has ditched Pete Davidson as a co-host, and instead, her godmother Dolly Parton will be co-hosting the bash alongside her. The star-studded lineup of musical acts has been confirmed to feature pop singers Sia and Fletcher, rappers Latto and Rae Sremmurd, as well as LA rock band Liily. It will be recorded live from Miami and broadcast on NBC.
Executive produced by Cyrus and Lorne Michaels, Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party will also feature appearances from Saturday Night Live cast members Chloe Fineman and Sarah Sherman, as well as the comedy trio known as Please Don’t Destroy of comedians Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy.
This official announcement comes after a series of mysterious “New Year, New Miley” posters popped up in Los Angeles and Copenhagen last week “The lineup is very me,” Cyrus told Fallon. “It is curated in a way that makes no sense but makes total sense.”
Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party will air live on Saturday, December 31 on NBC from 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET. The special will also stream live on Peacock.
Taylor Swift has received a lot of praise for All Too Well: The Short Film. It was one of 2021’s biggest pop culture moments and it’s won MTV Video Music Awards, an American Music Award, and we’ll learn next year if it gets the Grammy for Best Music Video. While that latter award is still up in the air, there’s one thing we know for sure: the Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien video won’t win an Oscar.
When it comes to All Too Well, however, Swifties were quick to hop on Twitter and cry “snub.” One fan, for example, wrote, “You can snub her all you want. I know when Taylor sets her mind on getting something, there’s no stopping her. She will win that oscar sooner or later. Mark my words.” Another tweeted, “not getting nominated is not a snub but i just know taylor is disappointed and that makes me sad 🙁 she’s so proud of this project.”
You can snub her all you want. I know when Taylor sets her mind on getting something, there’s no stopping her. She will win that oscar sooner or later. Mark my words https://t.co/CD9KAJDZxk
not getting nominated is not a snub but i just know taylor is disappointed and that makes me sad 🙁 she’s so proud of this project https://t.co/2V3gQ8tNwv
If country music icon, entrepreneur, and humanitarian Dolly Parton decided to step away from the public eye today, her impact would still be felt. But, Parton took extra precautions to ensure her legacy would be remembered for generations to come. During her appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the legendary songwriter spoke about her plan for Dolly lovers.
To commemorate the groundbreaking of her retreat, Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort and Spa, back in 2015, the “9 To 5” singer gathered a few pieces of technology from the time to place into a time capsule. As a musician at heart, Parton couldn’t help but write a special song for the occasion to go into the capsule as well.
Though it has only been seven years since the capsule has been buried Parton admitted to host Clarkson that the decision has “driven her crazy.”
“You have no idea how that has bothered me. I wanna go dig that up so bad. It’s a really good song,” proclaimed Parton.
The capsule and the song aren’t supposed to be revealed again until 2045, to mark the spa’s 30th anniversary.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee no longer wants the public to want that long saying, “They weren’t expecting me to be there at all, and I probably won’t be. I might be there, who knows? I figure it’ll probably disintegrate, and nobody will ever hear it, that’s what bothers me, to think that it’s going to be a song that nobody’s ever gonna hear if it rots in there before they open it.”
Looks Dolly Parton fans looking for new music from the singer will just need to wait until her rock album drops or hold out for the rumored musical about her life.
8 nights, approximately 1 Hallmark movie, and about 5% of the retail floor space compared to the abundance of Christmas decor at your local TJ Maxx. That’s what Jewish people get for the holidays. I’m not kvetching, I’m just saying, would it kill people to put out a little more Hanukkah product?
Thankfully, the fine folks at Saturday Night Live have always been good to my people, giving us a schtickle of the spotlight while playfully pushing back on the disparity between Christmas and Hanukkah with sketches that reveal our secret Christmastime traditions, our Santa Claus alternates, and our very own Holiday anthem. Additionally, there are a ton of other great SNL sketches that celebrate Jewish culture and/or lovingly lampoon our acknowledged quirkiness with some pretty hilarious self-owns. This is good because laughter is like Jewish penicillin for the soul. And in an era when our space laser has been outed and we’ve had to throw out our 808 & Heartbreak records (plus a bunch of heavier stuff that I’m purposely skipping over), we could use a laugh. So, here now is a humbly selected collection of the best Jewish SNL sketches of all time.
10. Jewess Jeans
This doesn’t exactly land as hard as it did more than 40 years ago when the Jordache jeans ad it’s parodying was in the zeitgeist, but it’s Gilda Radner disco dancing to a song with the line “she’s got designer nails and a designer nose” before crushing the catchphrase by letting us all know that while the jeans aren’t made exclusively for Jewish girls, “it wouldn’t hurt.” There’s also some historic significance to this, as attributed by this interesting article on Jewish cultural representation on SNL and elsewhere. Gilda twirled so Adam Sandler could strum.
9. Drake’s Bar Mitzvah
Take a trip back to Drake (or Drakob)’s Bar Mitzvah for this monologue sketch that quickly turns into a rap about growing up with a Jewish mom and a Black dad. From raising your hands in the air to raising a chair, balling like LeBron and knowing what a W-2 is, and eating knishes with… everyone, Drake manages to celebrate his heritage while getting more than a few laughs.
8. Jewish Elvis
“I mean, it’s a little bit of singing, but it’s mostly complaining.”
Austin Butler nearly steals this one, going full superfan and screaming “ruin me Jewish Elvis, ruin me!” while flipping the script after playing Elvis in the Baz Luhrman-directed biopic. But this is Sarah Sherman’s show, doing her “little move(s)” in a rhinestone and Star Of David adorned jumpsuit as Jewish Elvis while singing about the apex predator known as lactose intolerance and catching some mighty big panties in the process. A tremendous sketch, but “Fools Rosh Hashanah” as a “Fools Rush In” parody was right there!
Honorable mention for Chloe Fineman blowing out the menorah candles like a birthday cake while doing her amazing Jennifer Coolidge impression in the same episode.
7. Jacob The Bar Mitzvah Boy
This Vanessa Bayer desk character is a masterclass in awkwardness as Jacob refuses to be thrown from his well-studied text. Total immersion here by Bayer, who nails the painful attempts at humor and the wooden mannerisms of a bar mitzvah boy living through the sheer terror gauntlet of public speaking in a freshly learned language. Imagine trying to white knuckle through with only the promise of a savings bond and avoiding family shame to keep you on point while Seth Meyers buzzes around you asking about the Yankees. We can’t all be as fly as Drake at our Bar Mitzvah.
6. Adam Grossman: Dinner With Dad’s New Girlfriend
Precocious little pisher Adam Grossman has no filter and sounds like he’s auditioning for a role as a Catskills kid comic on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. A recurring character for Jonah Hill that was born from a story told by Bill Hader, Adam is a 6-year-old who thinks he’s in his element beside adults while roasting his divorced dad (Hader) and intruding on the good times of his fellow diners at the local Benihana. In this second edition of the sketch, Adam is shouting about how being around so many knives reminds him of his bris and how taking a Viagra instead of a Flinstones chewable made for a weird day at Hebrew school.
Hill hasn’t played Adam since 2018, but here’s hoping we get to see him in the future.
5. Coffee Talk With Linda Richman
From a time when catchphrases were King in the early ’90s comes Coffee Talk from Mike Myers, who played his other iconic public-access talk show host character, Linda Richman, in 13 sketches opposite the likes of Madonna, Bill Murray, and John Travolta. A tribute to Myers’ mother-in-law, the big-haired, big personality having yenta character coined terms like “I’m a little verklempt,” “like buttah,” and “talk amongst yourselves” while talkin with celebrity guests and people calling from home. Coffee Talk is also responsible for one of the most memorable moments of that era of SNL when Barbara Streisand surprised Myers, Madonna, and Roseanne during a segment all about Babs’ Oscar snub for The Prince Of Tides.
4. Jewish Willy Wonka
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Andy Samberg took the kernel of sing-song-silliness that Adam Sandler pioneered and made a vast field of comedy popcorn on SNL, so it’s only natural that he’d be on this list with his own ode to Jewish culture following in the Sandman’s footsteps. Here, the Lonely Island standout teams with host Ben Stiller to blend the world of Willy Wonka with fever dreams and fine Jewish cuisine. Both kinds of pickles!? Matzah ball soup fit to be complained about!? A sandwich that, like a miracle, lasts for days? It’s all there in this beautifully imagined delicatessen playground of Stiller’s dreams/hallucinations.
For some reason, it’s difficult to find an embed of this one, but you can check it out here.
3. Hanukkah Harry
Santa Claus is many things, chiefest among them is a brilliant symbol and marketing aid. Dude is everywhere, outside your local mall, on holiday cards and decor, being played by Buzz Lightyear and Snake Plissken. I can’t hate the hustle. But I can be very, very jealous, because Jewish people lack that kind of broadly beloved symbol. Unless you count Mel Brooks. And I do, but I also want people to know the legend of Hanukkah Harry. Played by Jon Lovitz, Hanukkah Harry is everything Santa Claus is while being steeped in Jewish traditions. He might also be a little bit nicer (Santa might put you on the naughty list for talking out of turn, but Harry will bring you a little something), even if the gifts he gives out are a little less spectacular. He even has a magic sleigh and a jaunty theme song about his donkeys Moishe, Herschel, and Schlomo.
It’s also proving impossible to find the classic Hanukkah Harry Saves Christmas, but we can all enjoy the similar vibes from the time he saved Easter.
2. Christmastime For The Jews
My affection for this TV Funhouse claymation creation from SNL, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Triumph genius Robert Smigel is abundant. Writing the oral history around its creation is a professional highlight, partly because of how many people have told me how much they love the sketch. To paraphrase a line from the aforementioned story, Christmastime For The Jews means something to people who share an annual laugh, let the song dance around in their head for a few days, and feel utterly seen by its timeless jokes about the Jewish experience.
I joked upfront about barely getting any Hanukkah movies or decor options compared to the cultural behemoth that is Christmas, but it’s kinda weird growing up in the shadow of all of that, and so you kinda feel like an outsider. And nothing tugs on the heartstrings of outsiders more than finding something that signals that we’re not alone. That’s a lot of weight to hang on something where a clay rabbi cuts a squirrel’s nuts off, but tis the season for attached meaning and heartful sentiments. I love Christmastime For The Jews and I hope you do too.
1. The Hanukah Song
This can’t be a surprise. For one, I’ve mentioned Sandler a couple of times along the way here. For another, this is among SNL‘s most famous moments. And yet despite that awesome legacy, it’s so simple in its construction. Sandler, a guitar, and a casual-seeming song that actually has a few layers.
Its very existence nods to the lack of celebrated Hanukkah songs and Jewish people’s fascination with Jewish celebrity and accomplishment. Seth Rogen hit on the same theme in American Pickle when his man-out-of-time character pumps his fist after finding out that a Jewish person cured polio. If one of us makes it, we feel a small sense of pride and accomplishment. That’s not an exclusively Jewish thing, but it’s definitely a Jewish thing, and so The Fonz being Jewish or Paul Newman being half-Jewish or Harrison Ford being a quarter-Jewish? Not too shabby, indeed.
No one could have or would have predicted that this song would spawn such deep seeded and long-lasting affection, to say nothing of the way it sort of turned Sandler into a Jewish icon and our version of Andy Williams, but that just adds to its charm. The Hannukah Song isn’t trying too hard, it’s just a dumb little song that’s trying to celebrate the holiday while making people feel a little pride and a sense of community. What could be better?
Sometimes you’re just moseying along, smelling the flowers (or getting your usual morning coffee; I don’t know your routine) — and then BAM! Your existence has entered a new and exciting stage you weren’t at all prepared for.
We’ve all been there. And that’s probably why so many on the internet are relating to a man named Paris Zarcilla, or as the internet has dubbed him, #CatDad.
All Zarcilla wanted was to grab a sweater. He found a litter of kittens under his bed instead.
On May 29, 2018, Zarcilla rolled up to his bedroom to get himself a change of clothes. Then, I assume, he heard some kind of strange noise. And because this isn’t that type of horror movie, he decided to check under his bed.
Where he found this:
u201cSo… I JUST FOUND A CAT THAT IS NOT MINE AND IT HAS HAD BABIES UNDER MY BED.u201d
That tweet went viral almost instantly, with the entire internet dissolving into what I imagine to be a puddle of mewling goo. At least, that’s where I was when I started favoriting these tweets.
But while the rest of us were enjoying the delight that a surprise pack of kittens and their mama can bring to an otherwise dull day, Zarcilla was struggling with an important question:
u201cSo… I JUST FOUND A CAT THAT IS NOT MINE AND IT HAS HAD BABIES UNDER MY BED.u201d
I mean, what else are you going to do, right? You find a couple of kittens just hanging out in your home, clear your schedule, and start partying with them. (Safely and from a few feet away, maybe, so as not to spook them.)
If there’s one thing that this story proves, it’s how important animals are in our lives.
I’ll spare you every one of the adorable cat pictures in the thread (and there are a lot), but many people have joined in on the love, and Zarcilla’s story has become even more epic as he continued live-tweeting his experience.
Sure, he’s doing a lot for the kittens — he can’t separate them from the mom for six weeks, so everyone’s staying under his bed indefinitely — but he’s also recognizing the power our furry friends (or, you know, furry strangers who quickly become friends) have to impact our mood and change our outlook on life.
Zarcilla even pointed out the fact that being with the cats and the responsibility of becoming #CatDad may really be helping his mental health.
u201cI feel like the veil of the universe is being lifted slightly. Like, I feel high. Is this what it feels like to have a child? I think I’m falling in love. Fuck.u201d
u201cThis is too much. I’m approaching nirvana. I legitimately suffer from anxiety attacks and depression and my capacity to deal with it recently has been waning. The Cat Gods have smiled upon me with benevolence and turned the monsters under my bed into kittens.u201d
According to research, being the dad (or mom or parent) to a cat — or dog, if you’re so inclined — is beneficial for us humans. Dog owners experience less stress, and those who own cats are less likely to have heart problems.
And it’s therapeutic to spend time with an animal, because, unlike other humans, they’re not going to expect anything from you except that you feed and love them. That’s why so many of us may feel more comfortable being ourselves around our pets.
Of course, not all of us will be blessed with the discovery of a whole group of cats in our own homes.
Although strange kitties wandering in and just doing their thing in someone’s dining room aren’t unheard of.
So if you’re considering a pet, don’t wait for a family of felines to take up in your room. Consider rescuing an animal (like Chris Evans did!) to become your companion.
As for #CatDad? He’s doing just fine.
u201cI think I’m living the best day of my life. Wait, no. Actually fuck it yes I am. This is the best :’)u201d
I and pretty much every Gen X teen I grew up with couldn’t wait to learn to drive. Getting a driver’s license was a huge milestone that meant freedom, independence, the ability to go to our friends’ houses whenever we wanted to (so long as we had access to a car) and more—and we were totally psyched about it.
Today’s teens are … different. While some are just as eager as we were to get behind the wheel, there’s a whole bunch of young folks who have little to no interest in driving. As USA Today reported last year, “Data collected from the Federal Highway Administration and analyzed by Green Car Congress showed that in 2018 approximately 61% of 18-year-olds in the U.S. had a driver’s license, down from 80% percent in 1983. The number of 16-year-olds with licenses decreased from 46% to 25% in the same period.”
My oldest kid was interested, but took her sweet time and didn’t get her license until she was 18. My current 18-year-old still doesn’t have her license and has zero desire to get it, despite having completed driver’s ed. She just takes the bus and walks everywhere. Other parents in my immediate social circle have similarly disinterested-in-driving young adults, and I keep seeing parents posting about it on social media with a sense of bewilderment.
What the heck is going on with Gen Z when it comes to driving?
One obvious difference between today’s young people and their parents’ generation is the way they communicate with their peers. If we wanted to talk to our friends, we had two choices—a phone call on a landline (which was sometimes occupied and that our parents didn’t want us to monopolize) or seeing our friends in person. Kids today? Countless options to talk to their friends in various ways without having to go anywhere. While my generation thought video calls on handheld devices were the stuff of Jetsons-like future eras, our kids have never known life without them.
The desire to go out and be social isn’t as urgent with kids today because it simply isn’t as necessary. Despite us all lamenting how much time kids spend on devices, in my experience, they’re often using them to socialize—sometimes a lot more than we were ever able to at the same age. Though nothing can replace face-to-face social time, there’s not as much of a need to drive if you can always “hang out” with your friends online.
u201cMore than 40 percent of 19-year-old Gen Z Americans (born after 2000) do not have a driveru2019s license. nn48% of 16- to 18-year-olds do not drive at all.u201d
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Another difference is the expansion of public transportation and improvements in attitudes toward using it. Unless you lived in New York City, using public transportation just wasn’t cool when we were kids. But Gen X has grown up being hammered with climate change awareness since birth, so riding the city bus is viewed as the preferred, environmentally friendly choice over driving a car. Throw in ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, and the need for driving yourself diminishes drastically.
There’s also some anxiety about cars in general that may be playing a role in the younger set due to, ironically, how much car safety has increased. My generation was the first to have seatbelts as a standard feature in all cars—and it wasn’t even mandatory for everyone to wear a seatbelt in my state until I was 11. Our kids, on the other hand, have had all manner of car seats and booster seats reinforcing the idea that cars are inherently unsafe from birth. (That’s not a bad thing, it’s just a thing.) Young people today are more aware of the dangers of driving, just as they’re more aware of everything thanks to the internet, and with the rise in anxiety in general, fear may be keeping a lot of teens away from the wheel. Again, there is some data to back this up. In a survey of nondriving teens by insurance comparison website The Zebra, nearly 25% responded that they don’t have a license because they are afraid to drive a car.
The reasons for Gen Z not wanting to drive may be varied, but not wanting to learn to drive doesn’t mean they shouldn’t. My stance as a parent is that driving is an important life skill, like swimming, so even if you have no intention of driving, it’s important to know how. If my adult kids ever get stuck someplace and need to be able to drive legally, I want them to be able to do that, so I want them to get a driver’s license as well.
We don’t seem to be heading toward a truly carless future anytime soon, so Gen Z may want to rethink their reticence and at least learn how to drive, even if they have no intention of driving.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its shortlists for a bunch of categories — an annual tradition — and the category for Best Original Song features some familiar names including Drake, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and The Weeknd. Remember, these aren’t the official nominees, just the field that Academy voters will narrow down to make up the five-option field ahead of the actual awards voting.
Among the shortlisted songs are a number of the signature singles from some of the year’s biggest franchise sequels, including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Avatar 2: The Way Of Water, and Top Gun: Maverick. According to Billboard, 81 songs were eligible in this category, with 15 making the shortlist. That number will be whittled own to five official nominees. The 15 shortlisted songs are:
“Time” — By Drake, Giveon Evans, Jahaan Akil Sweet, Daniel Pemberton
From Amsterdam, 20th Century Studios
“Nothing Is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” — By The Weeknd, Steve Angello Josefsson, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axel Hedfords, Simon Franglen
From Avatar: The Way of Water, 20th Century Studios
“Lift Me Up” — By Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Rhianna, Tems
From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel Studios
“This Is a Life” — By David Byrne, Ryan Lott, Mitski
From Everything Everywhere All at Once, A24
“Ciao Papa” — By Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro
From Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Netflix
“Til You’re Home” — By Rita Wilson
From A Man Called Otto, Sony Pictures
“Naatu Naatu” — By Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj
From RRR, Variance Films
“My Mind & Me” — By Amy Allen, Jonathan Bellion, Selena Gomez, Jordan K Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Michael Pollack
From Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me, Apple Original Films
“Good Afternoon” — By Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
From Spirited, Apple Originals
“Applause” — By Diane Warren
From Tell It Like a Woman, Samuel Goldwyn Films
“Stand Up” — By Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II, Jazmine Sullivan
From Till, Orion/United Artists Releasing
“Hold My Hand” — By BloodPop (Michael Tucker), Lady Gaga
From Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Pictures
“Dust & Ash” — By J. Ralph
From The Voice of Dust and Ash, Matilda Productions
“Carolina” — By Taylor Swift
From Where the Crawdads Sing, Sony Pictures
“New Body Rhumba” — By Pat Mahoney, James Murphy, Nancy Whang
There seems to be a pretty solid formula when it comes to what makes a show a hit on Netflix. You take at least one but no more than eight teenagers/young adults and have them get involved in various supernatural weirdness and/or shenanigans with light to moderate violence and sarcasm. It’s not new, but it is something that Netflix has been leaning into lately: it’s worked with Stranger Things, Shadow and Bone, The Umbrella Academy, and it almost worked for Warrior Nun (RIP). But the latest one to really stick the landing is Wednesday, probably because it took the formula and added Tim Burton into the mix.
After debuting last month, Wednesday has already reached an impressive milestone by becoming the second-biggest week of streaming ever recorded by Nielsen. Can you guess which show is still the first? What’s even more impressive is that the series had only been out for five days of the viewing window, meaning that number can, and likely will, go up.
Netflix reported that the Jenna Ortega-led series jumped from 341.2 million hours watched in its first five days to 411.3 million the following week. Variety notes that there is a slight discrepancy with the data due to Netflix and Nielsen’s measurement system but the main takeaway here is that this show is getting a lot of traction and has no sign of slowing down.
Despite the major numbers, Netflix still hasn’t renewed the series for a second season, though it’s likely that there will be more of the Addams family coming to screens, and Ortega hopes it gets even “darker.” If they really want some more viewers, maybe they should add a ton of gore to appeal to the Squid Game fans. Wednesday does love her little dangerous pranks!
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