Boots, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Néro the Assassin Make Their Debuts in Netflix Top 10s

Welcome to your weekly roundup of all big stories from this week’s Netflix top 10 data drops. This week, we’ve got two major new releases to cover, including Boots season 1 and The Woman in Cabin 10. We’ll also see how Monster: The Ed Gein Story is performing in week 2 and look at lots of other new releases, too. 

 All the data used below is sourced from Netflix’s top 10 page, which updates weekly with the top 40 most-watched titles globally for that week, ranked by views. The data used below covers the period from October 6th to October 12th, 2025. We’ll be using the views metric in comparisons below. That metric is calculated by dividing the hours watched by the runtime. This metric enables more accurate comparisons between films and series, but it’s not a direct audience metric. It is the minimum number of viewings if they were all complete from the first second to the last second of the film or season.

How does this week stack up to previous weeks (dating back to mid-2023), and what’s the full top 40? Here’s a look:

• English TV – 59,600,000 (Rank 16 of 121 weeks)
• English Movie – 72,400,000 (Rank 63 of 121 weeks)
• Non-English TV – 34,700,000 (Rank 25 of 121 weeks)
• Non-English Movie – 34,200,000 (Rank 61 of 121 weeks)

English TV

English Film

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	The Woman in Cabin 10	33,500,000	21,200,000	1
2	KPop Demon Hunters	29,700,000	17,800,000 (-1.66%)	17
3	My Father, the BTK Killer	9,000,000	5,700,000	1
4	Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire	10,200,000	5,300,000 (39.47%)	3
5	Despicable Me 3	6,600,000	4,400,000	10
6	The Mask	7,300,000	4,300,000	1
7	Ruth & Boaz	6,300,000	4,100,000 (-70.92%)	3
8	The Maze Runner	7,100,000	3,800,000	3
9	About My Father	4,400,000	2,900,000 (38.10%)	2
10	Scary Movie	4,200,000	2,900,000	2

Non-English TV 

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	Genie, Make a Wish: Season 1	102,600,000	8,000,000 (100.00%)	2
2	Old Dog, New Tricks: Season 1	21,800,000	5,200,000 (79.31%)	2
3	Néro the Assassin: Season 1	31,600,000	4,500,000	1
4	Old Money: Season 1	22,300,000	3,900,000	1
5	Alice in Borderland: Season 3	20,500,000	3,100,000 (-55.71%)	3
6	Billionaires’ Bunker: Season 1	17,300,000	2,400,000	4
7	Bon Appétit, Your Majesty: Limited Series	35,000,000	2,200,000 (-55.10%)	8
8	Ángela: Limited Series	10,500,000	2,100,000 (-62.50%)	7
9	The Guest: Season 1	26,500,000	1,900,000 (-36.67%)	3
10	Ranma1/2: Season 2	1,100,000	1,400,000	1

Non-English Film

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	Caramelo	29,200,000	17,300,000	1
2	French Lover	8,100,000	4,000,000 (-67.48%)	3
3	War 2	9,900,000	3,400,000	1
4	Swim to Me	3,400,000	2,000,000	1
5	Mantis	3,600,000	1,900,000 (-72.06%)	3
6	Organ Child	2,900,000	1,600,000 (-52.94%)	2
7	Vinci 2	2,300,000	1,200,000	1
8	Kantara (Hindi)	2,500,000	1,000,000	3
9	Massacre of the Witches	1,400,000	900,000	1
10	Son of Sardaar 2	2,200,000	900,000 (-65.38%)	3

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1. Boots Debuts with 4.7M Views

Boots, previously known as The Corps, has been a long time in the works, and it debuted at #6 in the global top 10s this week with 27.5M hours watched, which equates to 4.7M views. 

On paper and stacked up against other TV premieres from the past couple of years, this is definitely on the lower end, but as we’ve seen time and time again, the bar is always lower for comedies to get across the line of renewals. Add to the fact that Sony Pictures Television is behind the production, who are usually good at getting shows made cheaper, we’re not ready to call time yet. 

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2. Monster: The Ed Gein Story in Week 2

Last week, Monster: The Ed Gein Story debuted to 12.2M views, and we noted that it was particularly hard to compare it against other titles, given that Netflix, for the most part, no longer releases series on a Friday, with Thursday being the launch pad for most scripted English series. 

Compared to other scripted Friday shows from the past few years, things still look pretty good. 

Stacking up against prior seasons, noting that DAHMER first released on a Wednesday and the Lyle and Erik Menendez Story on a Thursday (meaning they’ve had 2 and 1 extra days to pick up viewing hours, respectively), you can see that Ed Gein is pretty much on par with Lyle and Erik. Don’t expect an appearance in the all-time top 10 here! 

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3. The Woman in Cabin 10 Debuts Middle of the Pack for 2025

Kiera Knightley proved in late 2024 that she had pull on Netflix with the release of Black Doves (season 2 now in production), and does that continue to be the case with the new mystery thriller The Woman in Cabin 10? Sort of! Stacking against other movie premieres in 2025, we can see the movie sits right at the bottom of the middle of the pack with 21.2M views. 

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4. Néro the Assassin 

The new French period drama action series has put in a decent week 1 performance, and from what we can tell, a lot of people are working their way through it. It debuted with 4.5M views, putting it above Athracite but well below Blood Coast (another series released on a Wednesday). It’s featured in the daily top 10s in 84 countries, though according to FlixPatrol, it’s already falling out of many of those. 

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5. Is It Cake Is Back With a New Variant

It’s a simple, yet compelling concept, and people are still coming back for more. Although viewership on the main series dropped off substantially, its Halloween makeover has breathed new life into it.

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6. Wednesday Season 2 Rises to All Time #7

Wednesday keeps rising on the all-time most-watched TV English list, with plenty of weeks to go. As a reminder, its eligible period on Netflix for part 1 runs through November 5th, and part 2 will continue picking up views through December 3rd, 2025. 

We’re actually working on a piece about Netflix’s split season, but given that Bridgerton just got confirmed for a split release again and Wednesday is following almost the exact same viewing curve, we’re definitely seeing season 3 of Wednesday split up.

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7. Victoria Beckham and My Father, the BTK Killer

Two big documentary releases last week!

Netflix has been hyping its new Victoria Beckham limited series all year, and it finally dropped last week on a Thursday —not a typical release date for a docu-series —so there aren’t many comps. It debuted to 5.6M views, which puts it towards the low end compared to recent docu-series releases. We’ve also included the David Beckham series in the graph below, which did pick up more views, though it’s not a direct comparison, given that it was released on a Wednesday rather than the Thursday release for Victoria Beckham. 

Moving to My Father, the BTK Killer, the documentary did rank, which is more than can be said for other recent Friday doc features like The Truth About Jussie Smollett and Stolen: Heist of the Century, which didn’t even make the charts. A great start, as expected from a true-crime documentary with a fantastic hook:

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Those are our picks of the biggest stories this week! We’ll have more coverage next Tuesday, and keep an eye out for a couple more data analysis pieces coming up this week!