UPDATE: The collapse detailed below ended exactly where the numbers pointed. Marvel has now canceled Wonder Man and rescinded its Season 2 renewal, with showrunner Andrew Guest saying the call came down internally from Disney and Marvel.
Marvel’s Wonder Man didn’t just limp onto the Nielsen charts, it fell off immediately.
Disney+ dropped all 8 episodes at once, which should have helped the show rack up minutes. Instead, it looks like Wonder Man is tracking as the least-watched MCU series on Disney+.
Wonder Man charts for one week, then disappears
In its first week on the Nielsen streaming originals chart, Wonder Man pulled 618 million minutes with all 8 episodes available.
That averages out to 77.25 million minutes per episode.
One week later, Wonder Man is gone from the chart entirely.
The new Nielsen week (Feb. 02 – Feb. 08, 2026) shows the #10 slot at 332 million minutes. Since Wonder Man doesn’t appear anywhere in the Top 10, it means the series came in under 332 million minutes for the entire week.
Under 332 million minutes means the average drops below 41.5 million per episode
Because all 8 episodes were already available, the math is brutal.
If Wonder Man came in under 332 million minutes total, that’s an average under 41.5 million minutes per episode (332 divided by 8).
So after one week on the charts, Wonder Man’s already fallen below the Top 10 cutoff, with its per-episode average effectively collapsing from 77.25 million minutes to under 41.5 million.
Marvel pushes Wonder Man Episode 1 free on YouTube after the ratings story
After we pointed out the weak Nielsen performance, Marvel put Episode 1 on YouTube for free and directed viewers to Disney+ for the rest of the season.
That move reads like a scramble to get people to sample the show without a paywall.
But it doesn’t look like it’s catching fire there either.
As of press time, the Wonder Man Episode 1 upload has 76k views.
A Marvel YouTube video from two days earlier about X-Men ’97 and Cyclops has 347k views.
The takeaway
A full-season drop is supposed to juice viewing. Wonder Man got the binge release and still couldn’t hang on the Nielsen charts for more than a single week.
