{"id":2059481,"date":"2025-09-30T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2059481"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:22:22","slug":"marvel-zombies-season-2-looks-highly-likely-after-this-viewership-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marvel-zombies-season-2-looks-highly-likely-after-this-viewership-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Zombies Season 2 Looks Highly Likely After This Viewership Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marvel Zombies<\/span><\/strong> debuted on Disney+ on September 24, 2025, and quickly secured the top spot on the streamer\u2019s most-watched list in the U.S. for its first three days, with strong viewership driving its success.<\/p>\n

The four-episode TV-MA animated series surpassed Disney and Marvel\u2019s internal expectations within its five-day launch window, with Marvel Studios sources confirming that Marvel Animation is already considering additional stories. Despite its short length and mature rating, the series ranked as one of Marvel Animation\u2019s strongest openings to date.<\/p>\n

Marvel Zombies starts strong on Disney+<\/h2>\n

Marvel\u2019s previous animated hits include What If\u2026? Season 1 and X-Men \u201997, with the latter drawing four million viewers in its first five days (via Variety<\/a>). Industry tracker FlixPatrol<\/a> reported that Marvel Zombies also reached the global #1 position among series, overtaking Hulu\u2019s Alien: Earth, and currently sits at #2 in the United States overall, just behind Pixar\u2019s Elio.<\/p>\n

The success is notable as it comes during a year when Marvel\u2019s theatrical output, including Captain America: Brave New World ($415 million) and Thunderbolts* ($382 million), fell short of past highs. The series tells a story set in the Marvel Multiverse where a zombie virus devastates the superhero community. It features familiar characters in an R-rated survival narrative.<\/p>\n

Despite launching with a 65\u201366% critics\u2019 score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, audience response has been stronger, with a 76% rating. The show follows Marvel Animation\u2019s recent lineup of What If\u2026?, X-Men \u201997, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, and Eyes of Wakanda.<\/p>\n

Brad Winderbaum and Marvel executives have said that Season 2 plans are contingent on sustained viewership. Early signals suggest that the undead premise, the timing ahead of Halloween, and its distinct tone within the MCU have helped push the show to streaming success.<\/p>\n

With survivors left at the end of Season 1, Marvel Zombies remains positioned for potential continuation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marvel Zombies debuted on Disney+ on September 24, 2025, and quickly secured the top spot on the streamer\u2019s most-watched list in the U.S. for its first three days, with strong viewership driving its success. The four-episode TV-MA animated series surpassed Disney and Marvel\u2019s internal expectations within its five-day launch window, with Marvel Studios sources confirming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2059482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23301,349203,383856,315758,345424],"class_list":["post-2059481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-disney","tag-marvel-animation","tag-marvel-multiverse","tag-marvel-studios","tag-marvel-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Marvel-Zombies-Season-2-Looks-Highly-Likely-After-This-Viewership.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}