Welcome along to another weekly deep-dive into the Netflix top 10s! This week, there were three big premieres: Nobody Wants This season 2, A House of Dynamite, and The Monster of Florence. How well did they perform, and what other stories are there from the top 10s? Let’s dig into it.
Before we get into it, not too many omissions this week. Baby Bandito is notably a big no-show on the Non-English TV table, and Who Killed the Montreal Expos? missed out on the English Film list, which probably shouldn’t be surprising, as it’s a Canada-focused doc and has featured in their top 10s every day since release.
First, here are the top 10s for all four categories:
Non-English TV – 29,000,000 (Rank 54 of 123 weeks)
Non-English Film – 41,100,000 (Rank 37 of 123 weeks)
1. A House of Dynamite
I’m in full agreement with our critics’ take on Kathryn Bigelow’s major return to film: A House of Dynamite offers a frantic, tense look behind the scenes as a missile is launched toward the USA, but the online consensus is clearly split. Does that mean it struggled in the top 10s? No. But it didn’t set the world on fire either.
Stacked against other 2025 releases, it comes in the middle of the pack with 22.1M views. That’s a little behind Sofia Carson’s The Life List and a little above the recent release of The Woman in Cabin 10. We’ll see if the divisive nature of online chatter causes a steep rise in viewership or a drop next week. Fingers crossed —the former. It’s a great film.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, STRAW and 12 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 17 Netflix titles: Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, STRAW, The Electric State, Kinda Pregnant, My Oxford Year, The Life List, The Woman in Cabin 10, La Dolce Villa, Nonnas, Plankton: The Movie, Fear Street: Prom Queen, Ruth and Boaz, KPop Demon Hunters, The Twits. Combined total: 392,100,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, STRAW and 12 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Back in Action
46,800,000
1
Happy Gilmore 2
46,700,000
2
The Old Guard 2
37,500,000
3
Havoc
29,800,000
4
STRAW
25,300,000
5
The Electric State
25,200,000
6
Kinda Pregnant
25,100,000
7
My Oxford Year
24,600,000
8
The Life List
24,400,000
9
The Woman in Cabin 10
21,200,000
10
La Dolce Villa
19,800,000
11
Nonnas
15,300,000
12
Plankton: The Movie
14,300,000
13
Fear Street: Prom Queen
10,700,000
14
Ruth and Boaz
10,300,000
15
KPop Demon Hunters
9,200,000
16
The Twits
5,900,000
17
2. Nobody Wants This Returns
Picture: Netflix
Season 2 of Nobody Wants This, as it turns out, most people still want it (sorry, very lame pun, Frederic was better at this…), but we did see a slight drop between seasons 1 and 2. Nothing to be alarmed about, given that Netflix’s UI seems to have already confirmed that more is on the way (alongside Kristen Bell, who confirmed the writer’s room was already back in action). In its opening four days, it dropped about 16% season over season. As you can see from the tables above, Nobody Wants This season 1 also got a meaningful lift in viewership to make it ninth in the charts.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Nobody Wants This - Season 1 and Nobody Wants This - Season 2 (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 2 Netflix titles: Nobody Wants This - Season 1, Nobody Wants This - Season 2. Combined total: 18,900,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Nobody Wants This - Season 1 and Nobody Wants This - Season 2 over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Nobody Wants This - Season 1
10,300,000
1
Nobody Wants This - Season 2
8,600,000
2
3. The Monster of Florence
Netflix put a lot of stock in its new Italian serial killer drama, and it paid off—with 9.6M views that put it on par with Deceitful Love, which premiered in October 2024, and both reached 9.6M views. Reviews are quite impressive too, so we’ll see if this picks up in the weeks to come.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - The Monster of Florence, Deceitful Love, The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 1, The Leopard, Adoration and 3 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 8 Netflix titles: The Monster of Florence, Deceitful Love, The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 1, The Leopard, Adoration, The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 2, My Family, The Life You Wanted. Combined total: 37,000,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for The Monster of Florence, Deceitful Love, The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 1, The Leopard, Adoration and 3 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
The Monster of Florence
9,600,000
1
Deceitful Love
9,600,000
2
The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 1
5,900,000
3
The Leopard
3,400,000
4
Adoration
3,200,000
5
The Law According to Lidia Poët - Season 2
2,200,000
6
My Family
1,600,000
7
The Life You Wanted
1,500,000
8
4. The Perfect Neighbor continues to do incredibly well…
Last week, we reported that The Perfect Neighbor broke a record as the best opening weekend for a documentary —how well is it doing in week 2? Stacked up against the other heaviest of hitters in the space, also true-crime docs, you can see it is still a notch ahead of Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, although that rose significantly in week 2 with a 207% bump in viewing hours, while The Perfect Neighbor only did a 21% bump.
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - The Perfect Neighbor, A Deadly American Marriage and Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (5-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 3 Netflix titles: The Perfect Neighbor, A Deadly American Marriage, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. Combined final total: 120,100,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for The Perfect Neighbor, A Deadly American Marriage and Unknown Number: The High School Catfish over 5 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Final cumulative
The Perfect Neighbor
0
16,700,000
36,900,000
42,000,000
—
—
42,000,000
A Deadly American Marriage
0
9,800,000
22,600,000
27,000,000
—
—
27,000,000
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
0
8,600,000
34,900,000
46,600,000
51,100,000
—
51,100,000
5. The Elixir
Although Netflix’s 2025 horror slate was a little lacking, The Exlixir clearly fills a yearning for horror, performing exceptionally well against other Indonesian movies. It’s picking up viewership everywhere, too, with the film in the daily top 10s across all 91 countries, according to FlixPatrol. Their data also suggests the film is doing exceptionally well across Latin America, parts of Europe, and most of Asia.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - The Elixir, The Shadow Strays, A Normal Woman, Borderless Fog and 24 Hours with Gaspar (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 5 Netflix titles: The Elixir, The Shadow Strays, A Normal Woman, Borderless Fog, 24 Hours with Gaspar. Combined total: 33,200,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for The Elixir, The Shadow Strays, A Normal Woman, Borderless Fog and 24 Hours with Gaspar over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
The Elixir
11,400,000
1
The Shadow Strays
10,600,000
2
A Normal Woman
6,600,000
3
Borderless Fog
3,700,000
4
24 Hours with Gaspar
900,000
5
6. Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia
Wednesday is the usual release day for a new documentary series, and that’s once again the case with last week’s coverage of the mob war between John Stanfa and Joey Merlino, plunging ’90s Philadelphia into chaos. A middling start with 4.8M views in its first five days on the platform.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, aka Charlie Sheen, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, Mr. McMahon and 6 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 11 Netflix titles: American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, aka Charlie Sheen, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, Mr. McMahon, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, The Manhattan Alien Abduction, Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes, The Diamond Heist, Turning Point: The Vietnam War, Critical: Between Life and Death. Combined total: 63,700,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, aka Charlie Sheen, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, Mr. McMahon and 6 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
12,600,000
1
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
9,800,000
2
aka Charlie Sheen
9,700,000
3
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
7,300,000
4
Mr. McMahon
4,900,000
5
Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia
4,800,000
6
The Manhattan Alien Abduction
4,000,000
7
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
3,400,000
8
The Diamond Heist
3,100,000
9
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
2,100,000
10
Critical: Between Life and Death
2,000,000
11
Given that this marks the moniker “Mob War,” suggesting there’s more story to come with future mob wars, they’ll be hoping for a better-performing topic next time around.
Various Check-ins!
Rounding out, let’s check in on other movies and series to see how they’re performing in later weeks.
Beginning with Boots, we’ve been predicting a soft renewal for this one, and honestly, our opinion hasn’t changed. It suffered a 41% drop in viewing hours in week 3, but we still suspect that, given the buzz around it, it should be enough for a second season. Stacked against a few other shows that did get renewed, it’s tracking quite well.
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - Boots, Dept. Q, Beef and Ransom Canyon (5-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 4 Netflix titles: Boots, Dept. Q, Beef, Ransom Canyon. Combined final total: 72,400,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for Boots, Dept. Q, Beef and Ransom Canyon over 5 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Final cumulative
Boots
0
4,700,000
14,100,000
19,700,000
23,900,000
—
23,900,000
Dept. Q
0
6,000,000
14,900,000
19,200,000
22,600,000
25,200,000
25,200,000
Beef
0
—
—
—
—
—
0
Ransom Canyon
0
7,200,000
16,600,000
20,800,000
23,300,000
—
23,300,000
Last week, we noted how Monster: The Ed Gein Storyhad fallen behind Lyle and Erik Menendez, and this week, that falling back has become even more pronounced in the line graph!
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - DAHMER, Monster: The Ed Gein Story and Monsters - The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (6-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 3 Netflix titles: DAHMER, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Monsters - The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Combined final total: 217,300,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for DAHMER, Monster: The Ed Gein Story and Monsters - The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story over 6 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Final cumulative
DAHMER
0
22,000,000
55,600,000
78,600,000
92,400,000
100,200,000
104,800,000
104,800,000
Monster: The Ed Gein Story
0
12,200,000
32,900,000
42,400,000
47,500,000
50,300,000
—
50,300,000
Monsters - The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
0
12,300,000
31,800,000
44,900,000
53,600,000
58,900,000
62,200,000
62,200,000
Finally, how well is The Diplomat season 3 performing against prior seasons? Pretty well —it’s caught up on season 2 a little and is pretty much on par with it. Good hold!
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - The Diplomat - Season 1, The Diplomat - Season 2 and The Diplomat - Season 3 (6-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 3 Netflix titles: The Diplomat - Season 1, The Diplomat - Season 2, The Diplomat - Season 3. Combined final total: 61,300,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for The Diplomat - Season 1, The Diplomat - Season 2 and The Diplomat - Season 3 over 6 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Final cumulative
The Diplomat - Season 1
0
8,500,000
18,300,000
22,900,000
25,600,000
28,200,000
30,200,000
30,200,000
The Diplomat - Season 2
0
5,600,000
11,500,000
14,800,000
16,800,000
—
—
16,800,000
The Diplomat - Season 3
0
4,800,000
11,100,000
14,300,000
—
—
—
14,300,000
That’s your top 10 report for this week – we’ll be back again on Tuesday for more! Any surprises/disappointments? Let us know in the comments.