Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/September 15 to 21, 2024

Most Popular Wikipedia Articles of the Week (September 15 to 21, 2024)

Prepared with commentary by Igordebraga, Vestrian24Bio, CAWylie.

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Many criminals, Netflix-related articles (including of shows about those criminals!), and a reminder that the American elections are heating up.

Rank	Article	Views	Notes/about
1	Lyle and Erik Menéndez	3,493,715	Oh look, another case of criminals topping this list after a Netflix show. The Menéndez brothers were the sons of an entertainment executive who one day in 1989 decided to repeatedly shoot their parents with 12-gauge shotguns, passed as innocent so they could spent the inherited fortune, but the police eventually caught on, arrested them and their 1996 trial sent them into life sentences. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (#8) tells this story, with Cooper Koch as Lyle and Nicholas Chavez as Erik.
2	Sean Combs	1,507,229	As recently sung by Kesha, "wake up in the morning like fuck P. Diddy!" Last year this rapper's former partner Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault (and at a certain point security footage of him beating her in a hotel was leaked), other people took the opportunity to also denounce Combs, in March some properties of his were raided by Homeland Security, and now "Puff Daddy" has been downright indicted by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, with allegations his commercial enterprises were used for felonies of their own. Combs has pled not guilty and was twice denied bail, so he remains in a detention center while awaiting trial.
3	Deaths in 2024	976,004	Don't they ever have to worry? Don't you ever wonder why? It's a part of me that tells you Oh, don't you ever, don't ever say die Never, never, Never Say Die! Again!
4	Tito Jackson	818,581	"—I'm Michael Jackson! You are Toto! —You mean Tito! Toto is what we ate last night for dinner." So, right after a jokey lyric in the obituary comes an addition to it. 15 years after the most famous member left this world, breaking Wikipedia along the way, another of The Jackson 5, who in 2012 reunited under their second name The Jacksons, went to attend the Great Gig in the Sky, namely Tito Jackson, at the age of 70. Along with performing Tito helped push more of the Jackson family onto the music business as his sons formed their own group, 3T.
5	Laura Loomer	700,884	This U.S congressional reject remains in the orbit of politics, namely as an influencer to Donald Trump. On September 12, towards the end of the second presidential debate, Trump made the claim of Haitian immigrants stealing pets in Springfield, Ohio, and eating them. This partly arose from Loomer's perpetuating the rumor in social media.
6	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice	693,903	Like on Stranger Things, Winona Ryder plays a mother who sees her child get dragged onto a separate dimension. Only this time around it's a daughter who goes to the afterlife, forcing Lydia Deetz to get help by summoning Beetlejuice (mwahahaha!), still pining for her after 36 years. Along with Ryder and Michael Keaton, there's also the return of Catherine O'Hara as Lydia's stepmom (but not Jeffrey Jones as her father, who gets a gruesome off-screen death given the actor's criminal record) and most importantly of director Tim Burton, along with the addition of Jenna Ortega as the daughter. Reviewers and audiences alike appreciated how Beetlejuice Beetlejuice retained the same funny and outlandish tone of the original, and the film has led the North American box office for three weeks straight while earning over $300 million worldwide.
7	Shōgun (2024 TV series)	675,653	This FX historical drama set in 17th century Japan garnered much praise earlier this year, and has now followed by converting 18 out of 25 Primetime Emmy nominations, the single most awarded season ever, with the wins including Outstanding Drama Series and Best Actor and Actress in Drama to Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai. This probably speaks well of the incoming seasons based on the rest of the Asian Saga. (and given no other Emmy winners came close to entering this week, Baby Reindeer, which like Shōgun appeared a lot in the Report in the first semester, took home Best Limited or Anthology Series, and Best Comedy went to Hacks, beating The Bear, which even the ceremony's opening monologue questioned whether it's a comedy)
8	Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story	617,889	Season 1 of this Ryan Murphy true crime show sullied our humble list by pasting a cannibal dead for nearly 30 years all over our records page and downright as the most viewed page of the year. So I must express a relief that in spite of providing another #1 subject, this time around the numbers won't go as high as Dahmer's did.
9	The Greatest of All Time	614,818	Kollywood Thalapathy Vijay's penultimate film before he moves onto politics, an action thriller film released two weeks ago and that has shattered many records for a Tamil film already. It has so far grossed over ₹450 crore (US$54 million) and has became the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2024 and the third highest-grossing Indian film of 2024. It also became the third highest-grossing film in Tamil Nadu, the fifth highest-grossing Tamil film in overseas, the fifth highest-grossing Tamil film of all time, the 11th highest-grossing South Indian film of all time and the 29th highest-grossing Indian film of all time. It became the fourth film of the actor to reach the ₹300 crore (US$36 million) mark after Bigil (2019), Varisu (2023) and Leo (2023); and the actor also became the only Tamil actor to have three consecutive films to do so. It became the sixth Tamil film to reach the ₹400 crore (US$48 million) mark within 11 days of its release. The actor's last film, tentatively titled Thalapathy 69 has been now officially announced as a political action thriller film and is scheduled to be released in October 2025.
10	Agatha All Along (miniseries)	605,989	The 11th television series in the MCU produced by Marvel Studios, via its new Marvel Television label, had its 2-episode premiere last Wednesday; with new episodes set to premiere every week, and a 2-episode finale on the Devil's Night. It follows up WandaVision, which ended with the villainous witch Agatha Harkness being put under a spell that made her think she was a character in an old sitcom. After 3 years, Agatha, still played with scenery-chewing gusto by Kathryn Hahn, gets her own show, where she is taken out of that spell by a goth kid and decides to recruit a new coven to recover her powers before some old enemies (who in the comics are her grandchildren!) come to confront her.
11	Kamala Harris	600,216	Just to prove we're not biased, there were expectations to discuss Trump International Golf Club shooting. Yet readers were not as interested as when someone actually hit Trump months ago, and both the incident and the Republican candidate were far off the list, while the VP who is trying to keep the White House with the Democrats remains here. Oh well.
12	Aaron Hernandez	594,783	This American football player, who was found dead in 2017 in his jail cell after being acquitted of a double homicide, gets noticed again in the first season of American Sports Story premiering September 17. Another murder conviction was reinstated.
13	2024 Lebanon pager explosions	581,177	Over a two-day period (September 17 & 18), numerous members of Hezbollah and civilians (42 total) were killed and over 3,500 were injured when their pagers and walkie-talkies were targeted to explode. The incident has been the largest security breach in the Israel–Hezbollah conflict. Days later, Hezbollah retaliated with a rocket attack against several Israeli cities.
14	Hezbollah	576,700
15	Anna Sorokin	574,818	Given the #8 write-up mentioned a criminal who got loads of views due to Netflix in 2022, here's another. Inventing Anna won't be getting a second season, but the imprisoned Russian fraudster who pretended to be rich heiress Anna Delvey is gracing American televisions again, as instead of being deported Sorokin has joined the current season of Dancing with the Stars, showing you can perform the cha-cha-cha while wearing an ankle monitor.
16	Atishi Marlena	568,032	This Delhi politician won election to the legislative assembly in 2020, became cabinet minister in 2023 following several resignations, and, on September 21 after another resignation, became chief minister, the youngest ever to hold the office.
17	2006 Noida serial murders	567,334	On September 17, the Indian thriller Sector 36, loosely based on these murders that happened in Noida near Nithari, mostly targeting young girls, was released. The two men convicted of the crimes probably attended, since they were both acquitted due to lack of evidence in 2023.
18	The Perfect Couple (TV series)	562,171	This American mystery drama miniseries, an adaptation of the 2018 novel of the same name by Elin Hilderbrand, about a murder that takes place during a lavish wedding, premiered on Netflix two weeks ago and opened to mixed reviews from critics.
19	Speak No Evil (2024 film)	533,627	This American psychological horror film, a remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name, about an American family (albeit with the mother being played by the Canadian to the left, Mackenzie Davis) who are invited to stay at a remote farmhouse of a British couple for the weekend, premiered at the DGA Theater, NYC two weeks ago, and was released in the US by Universal Pictures last week. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $26 million worldwide against a budget of $15 million.
20	Arch Manning	530,521	The fourth quarterback in the Manning family, named after the first, his grandpa Archie Manning, started well his sophomore season on the Texas Longhorns.
21	Deadpool & Wolverine	513,228	MCU's 34th film, about the bloody and profane multiversal shenanigans of Wade Wilson and James "Logan" Howlett, released two months ago and still present in theaters, having so far grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide.
22	Daniel Dubois	499,958	"Triple D" retained his IBF heavyweight title by knocking out heavily favored Anthony Joshua in the 5th round on September 21.
23	Stree 2	493,121	This Bollywood comedy horror film, the fifth installment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe was released last month on the Independence day opened to positive reviews from critics and has so far grossed over ₹841.38 crore (US$100 million) worldwide, emerging as the second highest-grossing Indian film and the highest-grossing Hindi film of 2024.
24	The Penguin (TV series)	459,360	After two Marvel entries, here's the Distinguished Competition. With the new rebooted universe set to begin in December with a new series, the DC Elseworlds returns with its 2nd entry in "The Batman Epic Crime Saga". While a sequel to the Matt Reeves's The Batman is underway, HBO started a spin-off series based on that film's incarnation of longtime Batman villain Oswald Cobb~~lebot~~ (yes, the show shortened his surname), still played by Colin Farrell under lots of make-up, as he uses the fallout of the film's events to rise in the Gotham City underworld. The series premiered last Thursday, with new episodes set to premiere every week concluding in mid-November.
25	Beetlejuice	445,968	Related to the Penguin, in 1992 Michael Keaton was the Batman who faced the Danny DeVito incarnation of the character. He got the gig after working four years prior with director Tim Burton in this movie where he played an undead and very funny maniac, and the "Ghost with the Most" returned to haunting theaters through #6.