Whenever there’s an adaptation of a much-loved e book, followers are inclined to get a bit nervous: will it keep true to the supply or take unacceptable liberties with the supply? For each The Sandman that does large numbers and will get an ideal Rotten Tomatoes rating, there is a Y: The Last Man with a sub-60% viewers rating. So it is good to see that One Piece, Netflix’s adaptation of the much-loved manga, is delighting critics and viewers alike.
One Piece has sailed its method to the very prime of the Netflix streaming chart, racking up over 140 million viewing hours and 18.5 million views. That places it fairly significantly forward of quantity two, Who Is Erin Carter?, and in a very completely different league to quantity 10, the fifth a part of Disenchantment.
If you have not caught One Piece but it is an epic journey saga set on the excessive seas and following Luffy, who desires to develop into King of the Pirates alongside his crew of misfit buddies. The manga was a large hit first in Japan after which extra extensively, and to date there have been 15 films and 20 animated seasons based mostly on the One Piece tales. So the most effective streaming service might be sticking with this present for fairly a while.
What have we been watching this week?
There’s one other new entry at quantity 4: Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones. Over 4 episodes it visits 5 completely different communities the place folks reside unusually lengthy lives and makes an attempt to find their secrets and techniques: what do these communities have in widespread, and may we copy them to reside longer? You can see why it is acquired folks .
Drug drama Painkiller‘s again for a fourth week within the chart, this time at quantity 5, and it is adopted by season two of The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.
After that it is the third week within the chart for Depp V Heard, which seems to be critic-proof. Despite a woeful 27% on Rotten Tomatoes from the critics and an excellent worse 10% from viewers, Stuff says there’s “no actual motive for the present to exist in any respect”. Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun Times says it lacks and desperately wanted “esteemed journalists, regulation enforcement veterans and authorized specialists to place issues in perspective” – it streamed over 6.5 million hours final week. Writing within the Hollywood Reporter, Dan Fienberg says it “might be worse, however might hardly be extra pointless”.
Following intently behind is the documentary or, if you’ll, croc-u-mentary concerning the Florida Gators school soccer workforce, Untold: Swamp Kings. At quantity eight there’s the youngsters’ present Cocomelon, now in its eighth season, and at quantity 9 there’s one other children’ present, Gabby’s Dollhouse.
Last and least, when it comes to viewing figures, there’s the fifth a part of Disenchantment, which would be the remaining season of Matt Groening’s Netflix animation. This is not a Netflix cancelation: it was written with the intention of ending the story fairly than delivered to an undesirable abrupt finish.
