Netflix’s latest top 10 charts are in! The streamer’s weekly scoreboard served up a full sampler box of surprises, from an unexpectedly strong holiday romcom to a Western wobbling out of the gate to a documentary about Diddy muscling its way into the conversation. Stranger Things stumbled, Troll 2 didn’t quite roar, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein continued its steady march toward awards season glory.
Before we get into it, a special shoutout to The Rats, the once-abandoned prequel story set in the world of The Witcher, which has just entered the global top 10s, having climbed the weekly charts around the world over the past week or so. We have no idea why it’s climbing, though. The usual culprits for a random boost are TikTok, but we couldn’t find any evidence of it. It could just be getting a big boost by the algo and snowballing from there.
As always, let’s begin with the weekly ranks comparing how this week’s top 10s stack up against other weeks dating back to mid-2023.
English TV – 93,300,000 (Rank 2 of 129 weeks) – Note: That last week was #1
English Film – 67,100,000 (Rank 88 of 129 weeks)
Non-English TV – 16,800,000 (Rank 125 of 129 weeks)
Non-English Film – 49,200,000 (Rank 25 of 129 weeks)
1. My Secret Santa Brings An End to Netflix’s Christmas Movie Slate
Does Virgin River star Alexandra Breckenridge have some pull on Netflix? Yes is the answer! Stacking up all the Christmas movies in recent years, My Secret Santa is set right in the middle of the pack with 18.1M views, putting it on par with the first week performance of Meet Me Next Christmas.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Our Little Secret, Champagne Problems, Jingle Bell Heist, That Christmas, My Secret Santa and 7 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 12 Netflix titles: Our Little Secret, Champagne Problems, Jingle Bell Heist, That Christmas, My Secret Santa, Meet Me Next Christmas, Hot Frosty, The Merry Gentlemen, The Merry Gentlemen, I Believe in Santa, A Merry Little Ex-Mas, Christmas on Mistletoe Farm. Combined total: 205,600,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Our Little Secret, Champagne Problems, Jingle Bell Heist, That Christmas, My Secret Santa and 7 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Our Little Secret
32,400,000
1
Champagne Problems
20,500,000
2
Jingle Bell Heist
19,300,000
3
That Christmas
18,300,000
4
My Secret Santa
18,100,000
5
Meet Me Next Christmas
18,100,000
6
Hot Frosty
16,000,000
7
The Merry Gentlemen
14,700,000
8
The Merry Gentlemen
14,700,000
9
I Believe in Santa
12,900,000
10
A Merry Little Ex-Mas
12,800,000
11
Christmas on Mistletoe Farm
7,800,000
12
Zooming out, Champagne Problems is the clear winner so far from the Christmas movie slate of 2025, but there are still a few weeks to go!
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - Jingle Bell Heist, My Secret Santa, Champagne Problems and A Merry Little Ex-Mas (4-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 4 Netflix titles: Jingle Bell Heist, My Secret Santa, Champagne Problems, A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Combined final total: 151,700,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for Jingle Bell Heist, My Secret Santa, Champagne Problems and A Merry Little Ex-Mas over 4 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Final cumulative
Jingle Bell Heist
0
19,300,000
29,700,000
33,800,000
—
33,800,000
My Secret Santa
0
18,100,000
34,300,000
41,700,000
48,400,000
48,400,000
Champagne Problems
0
20,500,000
34,900,000
40,100,000
—
40,100,000
A Merry Little Ex-Mas
0
12,800,000
21,800,000
25,800,000
29,400,000
29,400,000
2. The Abandons Starts Low – Season 2 May Be At Risk
The troubled Western series The Abandons released last Thursday to very mixed reviews (including Time saying it was everything wrong with TV series in 2025 – yikes!), but could Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson help the series to a big debut in the charts? It premiered #4 for the week with 7.3M views and 37M hours watched.
Stacked against limited series and season premieres for 2025, it’s not all that great of a start and instant in cancellation territory if you see it ranked lower than The Waterfront.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Fool Me Once, UNTAMED - Season 1, Adolescence, Griselda, The Perfect Couple and 15 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 20 Netflix titles: Fool Me Once, UNTAMED - Season 1, Adolescence, Griselda, The Perfect Couple, Zero Day, Sirens, Hostage, Black Doves - Season 1, American Primeval, The Madness, The Waterfront, The Abandons, The Beast in Me, Black Rabbit, The Residence, A Man in Full, The Fall of the House of Usher, Apple Cider Vinegar, Death by Lightning. Combined total: 259,100,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Fool Me Once, UNTAMED - Season 1, Adolescence, Griselda, The Perfect Couple and 15 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Fool Me Once
37,100,000
1
UNTAMED - Season 1
24,600,000
2
Adolescence
24,300,000
3
Griselda
20,600,000
4
The Perfect Couple
20,300,000
5
Zero Day
19,100,000
6
Sirens
16,700,000
7
Hostage
10,800,000
8
Black Doves - Season 1
10,800,000
9
American Primeval
10,400,000
10
The Madness
9,300,000
11
The Waterfront
8,300,000
12
The Abandons
7,300,000
13
The Beast in Me
6,900,000
14
Black Rabbit
6,600,000
15
The Residence
6,400,000
16
A Man in Full
6,300,000
17
The Fall of the House of Usher
6,300,000
18
Apple Cider Vinegar
3,800,000
19
Death by Lightning
3,200,000
20
3. Netflix’s Diddy Documentary Performs Strong
It’s dominated the headlines for over a week, and that always meant it was going to score big numbers. Netflix doesn’t typically release its biggest docu-series on Tuesday, so there’s a limited pool of titles to compare it against, but it’s safe to say it smoked most of the competition. We did add in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise (even though it’s a movie) just to demonstrate how big it was, and that held the Netflix record for most-watched doc released on a Tuesday.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, Homicide - New York, Jerry Springer: Fights Camera Action, Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 and 4 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 9 Netflix titles: Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, Homicide - New York, Jerry Springer: Fights Camera Action, Trainwreck: Storm Area 51, Who Killed Jill Dando?, Homicide - Los Angeles, How to Become a Mob Boss, Americas Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys. Combined total: 83,400,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Sean Combs: The Reckoning, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, Homicide - New York, Jerry Springer: Fights Camera Action, Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 and 4 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Sean Combs: The Reckoning
21,800,000
1
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise
21,100,000
2
Homicide - New York
10,200,000
3
Jerry Springer: Fights Camera Action
7,700,000
4
Trainwreck: Storm Area 51
7,000,000
5
Who Killed Jill Dando?
5,500,000
6
Homicide - Los Angeles
4,300,000
7
How to Become a Mob Boss
3,900,000
8
Americas Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
1,900,000
9
4. Stranger Things Season 5 Has A Big Viewing Drop
Last week, Stranger Things broke a Netflix record in being the biggest English-language series ever in terms of views. This week, its viewing hours dropped a whopping 60%. Season 4 rose 17% in comparison to its second week. Of course, there are a lot of factors going into all this, including the fact that season 5 debuted during Thanksgiving week at a primetime spot, but given how it matched the hours of season 4 in week 1 (nearly enough), it’s still a substantial drop. Season 4 was released in two volumes.
Netflix Cumulative Hours Watched Over Time - Stranger Things - 4 and Stranger Things - 5 (5-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative hours watched for 2 Netflix titles: Stranger Things - 4, Stranger Things - 5. Combined final total: 1,734,010,000 hours.
Weekly cumulative Netflix hours watched for Stranger Things - 4 and Stranger Things - 5 over 5 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Final cumulative
Stranger Things - 4
0
286,790,000
621,800,000
781,040,000
883,300,000
960,210,000
960,210,000
Stranger Things - 5
0
284,200,000
396,900,000
450,100,000
489,000,000
773,800,000
773,800,000
5. Adam Sandler Can’t Save Jay Kelly
Picture: Netflix
Adam Sandler, more often than not, is a sure sign that a project is going to pull in big numbers for Netflix. That’s not the case for Jay Kelly, which is the weakest English language movie debut of the year for Netflix Originals, pulling in just 5.1M views in its first week:
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, Frankenstein and 18 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 23 Netflix titles: Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, Frankenstein, STRAW, The Electric State, Kinda Pregnant, The Thursday Murder Club, 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, In Your Dreams, Ballad of a Small Player, Train Dreams, The Twits, Jay Kelly. Combined total: 472,400,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Back in Action, Happy Gilmore 2, The Old Guard 2, Havoc, Frankenstein and 18 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
Frankenstein
29,100,000
5
STRAW
25,300,000
6
The Electric State
25,200,000
7
Kinda Pregnant
25,100,000
8
The Thursday Murder Club
24,700,000
9
My Oxford Year
24,600,000
10
The Life List
24,400,000
11
The Woman in Cabin 10
21,200,000
12
La Dolce Villa
19,800,000
13
Nonnas
15,300,000
14
Plankton: The Movie
14,300,000
15
Fear Street: Prom Queen
10,700,000
16
Ruth and Boaz
10,300,000
17
KPop Demon Hunters
9,200,000
18
In Your Dreams
8,300,000
19
Ballad of a Small Player
6,900,000
20
Train Dreams
6,200,000
21
The Twits
5,900,000
22
Jay Kelly
5,100,000
23
6. Troll 2 May Not Reach The Heights of the First
Kicking off the month was the second installment of the Troll movie series. As you may know, the first one still sits atop Netflix’s all-time most-watched non-English movie list. Sadly, since December 1st was a Monday, we don’t have many other comps, and even comparing against Troll 1 isn’t necessarily fair, since it launched on a Thursday. Even with more days to pick up views, Troll 2 isn’t quite matching the heights of the first movie in its opening week, but we’ll wait to see how it evolves in the weeks to come.
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 3 Netflix titles: Troll, Troll 2, Narvik. Combined total: 94,000,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Troll, Troll 2 and Narvik over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Troll
43,800,000
1
Troll 2
29,300,000
2
Narvik
20,900,000
3
7. Frankenstein Has Legs
One of Netflix’s biggest hopes for this season is undoubtedly Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s epic that has now spent 5 weeks in the top 10s and is behaving like some of Netflix’s other award movies with broad appeal, like Rebel Ridge and Glass Onion. As of week 5, Frankenstein has picked up just shy of a quarter of a billion viewing hours and 88.5M views.
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - Frankenstein, Rebel Ridge, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and The Six Triple Eight (7-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 4 Netflix titles: Frankenstein, Rebel Ridge, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Six Triple Eight. Combined final total: 373,700,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for Frankenstein, Rebel Ridge, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and The Six Triple Eight over 7 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Final cumulative
Frankenstein
0
29,100,000
62,900,000
77,500,000
84,800,000
88,500,000
—
—
88,500,000
Rebel Ridge
0
31,200,000
69,800,000
86,500,000
95,400,000
100,900,000
104,400,000
—
104,400,000
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
0
35,000,000
89,100,000
108,000,000
116,300,000
121,400,000
125,500,000
128,400,000
128,400,000
The Six Triple Eight
0
14,300,000
37,600,000
48,400,000
52,400,000
—
—
—
52,400,000
8. The Price of Confession
Finally, we’ll take a look at the new Korean series The Price of Confession, which debuts around the middle of the pack compared to other debut South Korean series released throughout 2025.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Karma - Season 1, As You Stood By, The Price of Confession, Dear Hongrang and 2 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 7 Netflix titles: The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Karma - Season 1, As You Stood By, The Price of Confession, Dear Hongrang, You and Everything Else, Aema. Combined total: 17,800,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Karma - Season 1, As You Stood By, The Price of Confession, Dear Hongrang and 2 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call
4,700,000
1
Karma - Season 1
3,600,000
2
As You Stood By
2,300,000
3
The Price of Confession
2,200,000
4
Dear Hongrang
2,200,000
5
You and Everything Else
1,700,000
6
Aema
1,100,000
7
Those are our biggest stories for the week in the Netflix top 10s – let us know what you think in the comments down below.
