The second season of Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology series made an impressive debut last week, generating 97.5 million viewing hours and 12.3 million views during the week of September 16-22.
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story launched on September 19, and was the most viewed title among Netflix’s English-language series.
Still, it doesn’t quite hold a candle to its predecessor Dahmer, which put up 196.2 million streaming hours in its first weekend on the rankings two years ago.
Currently, Dahmer is Netflix’s third most popular Netflix title of all time, with 115.6 million views.
Netflix is set to release a documentary featuring new interviews with the Menendez brothers, which could spark additional viewing for the series.
Critics have been cool to Murphy's latest installment, rating it an aggregated 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
While The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story had a successful opening, it wasn’t Netflix’s most watched title.
That was Uglies, the dystopian film thriller starring Joey King, which earned the top spot among Netflix’s titles with 45.6 million viewing hours and 26.8 million views.
Uglies dethroned the top film from the week prior, Rebel Ridge, which landed at the No. 2 spot with 36.7 million viewing hours and 16.7 million views.
Also significant was the Korean action comedy film Officer Black Belt, which garnered an impressive 28.5 million views and 15.7 million viewing hours.
The film took the top spot among Netflix’s international titles in its second week of distribution, after it saw a 90% increase in viewership.
