Fun
Frisky
Nostalgic
Intense
Adventurous
Choked Up
Curious
Romantic
Weird
Streaming numbers are hard to come by, as services like Netflix and Hulu don’t make all of their viewership data available to the public (although every now and then Netflix will drop some data in a joke tweet). That’s why we’re all left to just guess at what people are streaming. Like, The Handmaid’s Tale won an Emmy, so surely everyone’s watching it!
That’s why reports like the one Hulu just dropped are so eye-opening. Just like in April when we learned that Netflix users have spent over half a billion hours watching Adam Sandler movies, we now know that the most-watched movie on Hulu in 2017 was–wait for it–Daddy’s Home!
Yep, the Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg comedy about a dad and stepdad duking it out for their kids’ affection was watched over 12 million times in 2017. That’s close 33,000 times a day. That’s a lot more success that one would think of a comedy with a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes (and also a 49% audience score on RT!) would have, but here we are. People love putting on the antics of Ferrell and Wahlberg and just chilling–and rightly so, according to Decider’s own Lea Palmieri, whose celebration of the movie had to have inspired at least a few of those 33,000 daily viewings.
You can see the rest of the report below, which also includes the surprising fact that Hulu viewers watched 107 million hours of South Park this year. This year. Not 1998. This year.
