Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/March 5 to 11, 2023

The Top 25 Report

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Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (March 5 to 11, 2023)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Max BuddyRoo

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Some renewal, yet things are relatively slow enough for an article to get its non-consecutive third #1. Don't worry, the Oscars will change things up next week.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	The Last of Us (TV series)	1,600,712	For the third time, HBO's adaptation of the acclaimed game, leaving out the frustrating parts, tops this list with its penultimate episode. It will be hard for it to lead the Report next week in spite of the season finale, given the Academy Awards.
2	Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	1,375,422	In 2014, this plane vanished in the middle of its Kuala Lumpur-Beijing trip. The still unsolved mystery was chronicled on Netflix by documentary miniseries MH370: The Plane That Disappeared.
3	ChatGPT	1,314,137	The chatbot makes the list yet again, with the new version, GPT-4, coming out in a week, along with South Park making an episode about it, with Stan using it to respond to texts from his girlfriend, and it backfiring.
4	Satish Kaushik	1,247,301	The famous Indian actor and director died this week at 66 from a heart attack in Gurugram.
5	Jon Jones	1,064,400	The professional mixed martial artist made the list this week for becoming #1 in the in the UFC men's pound-for-pound rankings.
6	International Women's Day	1,054,352	The holiday celebrating women (all women) is on the list this week for happening this week, with some debate over who can be considered a woman.
7	Deaths in 2023	987,315	'Cause this life is too short To live it just for you...
8	Chris Rock	954,707	In the lead-up to the Academy Awards, one of the people in last year's most infamous moment decided to discuss that in a comedy special on Netflix, Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, including the line "I love Will Smith, my whole life. I have rooted for Will Smith my whole life … now I watch Emancipation just to see him get whupped." Other subjects are also touched by the special, with the title noting cancel culture is not the same for everyone ("You know what I'm talking about… people who play Michael Jackson songs but won't play R. Kelly. Same crime, one of them just has better songs.").
9	Pedro Pascal	876,097	A survivalist with a girl (#15) in #1, along with a mercenary with a 50-year-old baby in The Mandalorian.
10	Scream VI	769,636	For the second time a movie called Scream gets a sequel right in the following year, with the return of the most meta slasher franchise (and the numbers in the title after the last one ditched them!). Unlike Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Ghostface actually went to New York rather than spend most of the screentime on a boat - although again what is supposedly the Big Apple was mostly filmed in Canada. The cast includes the return of the four survivors of the last movie, Hayden Panettiere revealing she wasn't killed in the fourth movie, and Courteney Cox as the only one aside from Ghostface's voice to appear in all six installments (because last time around one got his character killed and the other felt the producers weren't paying her enough). In any case, Scream VI got positive reviews and had the franchise's best opening, already recouping its relatively cheap $35 million budget in a single weekend.
11	Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar	681,858	A Bollywood romantic comedy, which took advantage of a holiday (#13) to pile up on the crore.
12	Creed III	659,183	The ninth Rocky had Adonis Creed ditching Rocky Balboa but following his footsteps in another way, as Michael B. Jordan himself directed. Reception was very positive, with good reviews and having already passed $100 million domestically.
13	Holi	651,989	The Hindu Festival of Colour celebrating the incoming spring.
14	Murdaugh family	651,563	People are still checking on the South Carolina lawyer family with some lawbreaking history chronicled on Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal.
15	Bella Ramsey	589,454	The girl immune to the fungal infection from #1.
16	Robert Blake (actor)	585,268	An actor who started as a child, being a part of the Little Rascals, as an adult starred in Baretta, and died at 89. Albeit it's hard to avoid the fact that he was arrested for supposedly killing wife Bonny Lee Bakley, even if he was acquitted, to the point the Oscars left him out of the In memoriam segment right after the host joked that he would indeed be absent.
17	UFC 285	566,960	#5 got his title defeating Ciryl Gane at this MMA event held in Las Vegas.
18	Silicon Valley Bank	562,263	The bank that nearly half the Silicon Valley startups relied on collapsed on March 10, marking the second largest bank failure after Washington Mutual in 2008. Two other technology-related banks also failed during the week, albeit those had cryptocurrency rather than economic problems to blame.
19	Ja Morant	524,609	Seeing the star of the Memphis Grizzlies get injured in the last playoffs, opening the path for yet another Golden State Warriors title, seemed bad enough. And then he decided to appear in an Instagram live video bearing a handgun in a nightclub just hours after losing to the Denver Nuggets, and got suspended by the Grizzlies for an indefinite amount of games.
20	Tom Sizemore	511,766	Like #16, a recently deceased actor left out of the Oscars In Memoriam, albeit Sizemore, who appeared in among others Saving Private Ryan, was still on The Academy's website memorial.
21	Jenna Ortega	511,243	The spooky 2022 of Ms. Ortega ended with Wednesday but started with her almost being killed in the opening scene of the fifth Scream. Well, she's back to take on Ghostface again in #10.
22	Pathaan (film)	478,200	One last entry for Bollywood's blockbuster that set a high bar for other 2023 releases.
23	Gary Rossington	463,131	The guitarist who was the last living founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd died at 71. Here's to him.
24	Lynyrd Skynyrd	428,185
25	Everything Everywhere All at Once	405,928	Beating out Cocaine Bear and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the possible #1 for next week. (May I say right away I found this creative but overrated and not deserving of Best Picture?)