Netflix Top 10 Report: ‘Champagne Problems’ Hits Big While ‘Train Dreams’ Debuts Low

Last week and the beginning of this week definitely feel like the calm before the storm, given that the juggernaut series Stranger Things returns in a matter of days now. That’s not to say that the top 10s don’t have plenty of stories to tell.

Before we get into it, some omissions and notes!

The Witcher season 4 has dropped out of the top 10 after only three weeks. It was already trailing its predecessors quite dramatically, but not even making it a month tells you everything you need to know. Another no-show is Ed Sheeran’s One-Shot special, which got less than 4.6M views. Jurassic World: Chaos Theory season 4 also failed to reach the top 10, despite all three prior seasons debuting in the top 10 in their first week of availability. Another huge omission on the TV side is A Man on the Inside, which saw its first season rank for five weeks. 

Absentia took up three slots in the global top 10s this week following its rollout on Netflix globally on November 14th. An impressive performance for a former canceled Prime Video series. While a season 4 renewal looks highly improbable, it is tracking better so far than Manifest did, albeit that was only initially made available in the US and not globally. Season 1 ranked #2 with 8.2M views, season 2 with 4M views, and season 3 with 2.3M views, suggesting people are bingeing this show at an incredibly fast pace. Stranger Things is also naturally doing very well in the top 10s, with all four prior seasons now featured. 

And finally, RAW, which saw the final appearance of John Cena, rose 10.71% this week. 

Let’s dig into it, starting with the weekly rankings dating back to mid-2023:

• English TV: 48,400,000 (Rank 53 of 127 weeks)
• English Film: 101,300,000 (Rank 12 of 127 weeks)
• Non-English TV: 35,800,000 (Rank 23 of 127 weeks)
• Non-English Film: 19,800,000 (Rank 116 of 127 weeks)

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1. Champagne Problems Does Well – Christmas Has Arrived!

Last week, Netflix’s first Christmas rom-com of the season, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, dropped and was towards the bottom of the pile compared to other Netflix Original holiday movies from years prior, but Champagne Problems, which dropped last Wednesday with Minka Kelly, proves that the genre still has plenty of life left.

It topped the charts with 20.5M views and 33.8M viewing hours, making it second in our dataset over the past few years, with Lindsay Lohan’s Our Little Secret still topping the list. 

Speaking of A Merry Little Ex-Mas, any improvement in week 2? Not really, it decreased viewing hours by around 30% going from 19.4M to 13.7M, which puts it over I Believe in Santa, but that’s about it. 

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2. In Your Dreams Doubles Its Viewing Hours in Week 2

Last week, we put In Your Dreams, one of two movies that served as follow-ups to Netflix’s mammoth hit KPop Demon Hunters, in the middling success category, and it’s still tracking in that ballpark in week 2. 

Week in Top 10	Week Period	Hours Watched	Views / CVE	Weekly Rank
1	Nov 9 to Nov 16, 2025	12,600,000	8,300,000	4
2	Nov 16 to Nov 23, 2025	25,200,000 (+100%)	16,600,000	2

It’s tracking around the same level that Orion and the Dark and Spellbound performed in 2024, which may be a bit disappointing given the level of oomph into it, but it’s tracking much better than The Twits, and we’re still counting it as a middling success. 

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3. Train Dreams has big dreams for the Oscars, but it’s not finding a huge audience

As some may have expected, Train Dreams debuted last Friday, and amongst the entire English movie lineup released on that day, it ranked pretty low with just 6.2M completed viewing equivalents. That’s not the lowest of the year; that accolade sadly sits with The Twits, but it’s not getting mass appeal and sitting alongside Edward Berger’s Ballad of a Small Player. 

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4. The Carman Family Deaths

Announced quite late with limited promo, The Carman Family Deaths debuted at #4 on the movie chart with 10.2M views, which puts it firmly amongst the mid-tier Wednesday documentary features of the past couple of years, but far short of some other crime documentaries such as The Tinder Swindler and What Jennifer Did. 

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5. Last Samurai Standing Still Doing Well In Week 2

A good second week for the Japanese period samurai series, with viewing hours growing 17% and it hitting the #1 spot in the Non-English TV chart. If the show’s creator is hoping to get a second season, this performance should mean he gets it comfortably, and given the plans for the series that have been discussed, we can’t wait to see it come to fruition. 

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6. Did Gabby’s Dollhouse Get a Movie Bump?

As you may know, Gabby’s Dollhouse got a feature film release just recently, courtesy of Universal Pictures (which should be on Netflix US next year), with season 12 being the first season to release post the movie’s debut. Has it sent viewership skyrocketing? Not quite, but the series is as sticky as ever with 3.1M views in its first week. 

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7. Envious is another sticky Netflix international show… 

The Argentine comedy series Envious is proving to be sticky again, with it debuting slightly lower than season 2 but higher than season 1. We’d bet on a fourth season renewal!

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8. A Check-in With The Beast In Me and Frankenstein

Another title that doubled its viewing hours in week 2 is The Beast In Me, which now has 21M views since its debut on November 13th. As with most titles on Netflix, you tend to find the viewership grouped in three buckets, and The Beast In Me firmly sits towards the middle of the second bucket, but by no means a megahit. 

Over to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, the movie is currently ranking as the fourth most-watched movie of 2025 in its third week after release, with STRAW having overtaken its spot in #3 in recent weeks. 

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Now, poll time! Stranger Things will undoubtedly be the big draw for the Netflix top 10 report next week, so we’re putting an under or over poll. Vote below whether you think Stranger Things volume 1 will get over or under 300 million viewing hours.