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Welcome back to our weekly deep dive into Netflix’s Top 10 viewership numbers. This week, Thomas Shelby traded his episodic roots for a feature film, and the gamble paid off massively—Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man just secured the third-largest English movie debut of the year. Over on the TV side, however, the waters are a bit choppier for One Piece Season 2, which is currently tracking notably behind its freshman run. Meanwhile, Virgin River continues to prove why it’s one of the streamer’s most bankable comfort watches, and the sci-fi epic War Machine is inching dangerously close to cracking the all-time Top 10 list. Let’s break down the data.
No-shows this week from Netflix’s new releases include The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pokémon Horizons: Season 3: Rising Hope (Season 2), Unicorn Academy: Secrets Revealed, Mark Normand: None Too Pleased, and The Plastic Detox. Not a great week for docs or kids’ animated titles.
Love & Death, the HBO show that hit Netflix in the US last year, dropped in a bunch more regions last week, hence its re-appearance in the top 10s. Mark Rober’s CrunchLabs also made a reappearance in its third season (season 2 did not appear in the weekly top 10s), with 2.9M views. As a reminder, Season 1 scored 4M views.
The big BTS concert also aired on Sunday, but given the numbers for today that Netflix dropped are far more informative and useful, we won’t be covering them below.
OK, let’s get into it, starting with how this week compared to weeks prior:
- English TV: 47,100,000 views (Rank 77 of 144 weeks)
- English Film: 78,500,000 (Rank 57 of 144 weeks)
- Non-English TV: 36,800,000 (Rank 19 of 144 weeks)
- Non-English Film: 19,000,000 (Rank 132 of 144 weeks)
1. Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
The big new movie of the week was Peaky Blinders, and unlike most Netflix movies, there was a big barrier to entry: 6 seasons of a show to get through. The show has been popular throughout its run and has called Netflix its home in all regions around the world, in addition to the BBC in the UK, and the movie did very well with 25.3M views in its opening 3 days. That makes it the third-largest English-language movie debut of the year.
Thinking about some other comparisons from Netflix’s history, a couple come to mind, and they’re both British titles. Luther: The Fallen Sun ultimately came out on top, though, in its opening week with The Last Kingdom beneath that. The only other movie continuations from series we could think of were animated titles, at least on the English side. Clearly, this route has potential!
2. One Piece in Week 2
Last week, we did a big deep-dive in the first week numbers (for the first six days, not four as widely incorrect everywhere else), and now we’ve got week 2. It’s a drop of around 33% in viewing hours in the first full 7 days vs the first six. Naturally, it’s hard to compare season 1 and season 2, but we’ll do our best given that season 2 has actually had an advantage in the number of days but we’ll give it a shot.
Using a linear estimate between Day 10 (37,800,000 views) and Day 17 (47,800,000 views), we get an estimated 42,085,714 views for Season 1 at Day 13.
Comparing that to Season 2’s actual Day 13 count of 27,900,000 views:
- Difference: Season 2 is behind by roughly 14.18 million views.
- Percentage: Season 2 is tracking 33.71% behind Season 1 at the 13-day mark.
That’s not horrendous by any stretch, but the series hasn’t kept a large portion of its season 1 audience. Maybe they’re still catching up, after all, season 1 is still very high up in the top 10s this week too, but still, not a trajectory of a show that’s going to go on forever, and certainly not the 12 seasons that’s been widely circulating throughout the week.
3. Virgin River season 7 in week 2
No big alarm bells for Virgin River, which is now tracking about 15% down on season 6 (up from 11% in week 1) and 32% on the highs of season 4 a few years back. Season 8 is already a go, and it’s clear why it got such an early renewal: this is one of Netflix’s most bankable shows year after year.
4. Radioactive Emergency From Brazil
The rest of the English TV and movie lists are not all that interesting, so let’s move on to some of the Non-English titles this week, beginning with Radioactive Emergency from Brazil. Some stellar, intriguing artwork will have no doubt done its job of getting people through the door, with it sitting just beneath some of the heaviest Wednesday hitters for the streamer from the region in prior years.
5. Furies Season 2 from France
Something we’ve noticed in recent years, particularly in European countries but also in reality titles, is not just calling something “Season X” but labeling that season differently. Love Is Blind is a good recent example that has had all its seasons renamed, and Berlin is another good example. Furies opted for that tactic too, calling season 2 “Resistance”. Did it revitalize viewership? Not really, coming substantially lower than season 1, which debuted with 2.7M views, but it was released on a Friday vs the Wednesday season 2 did, which managed to clock 1.9M views.
Stacked against other Wednesday series debuts from France, it might be lights out.
6. War Machine MIGHT get into the all-time top 10.
We’ve been tracking this one closely for a while, but War Machine is still doing pretty well in the top 10s and is chasing that #10 spot on Netflix’s all-time top 10 list. It’s now comfortably ahead of The Rip, but will it take Damsel? It’s a little behind right now (105.6M vs 101.7M), so we’ll see what happens.
Full Top 10s For This Week
English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ONE PIECE: Season 2 | 90,300,000 (-33.70%) | 11,100,000 | 2 |
| 2 | Virgin River: Season 7 | 63,900,000 (10.17%) | 7,700,000 | 2 |
| 3 | Beauty in Black: Season 2 | 73,900,000 | 5,300,000 | 4 |
| 4 | ONE PIECE: Season 1 | 33,100,000 (-75.70%) | 4,400,000 | 10 |
| 5 | The Dinosaurs: Season 1 | 10,400,000 (-65.22%) | 3,400,000 | 3 |
| 6 | Bridgerton: Season 4 | 28,600,000 (-39.28%) | 3,200,000 | 8 |
| 7 | Age of Attraction: Season 1 | 21,700,000 (13.61%) | 3,200,000 | 2 |
| 8 | Raw: 2026 – March 16, 2026 | 5,900,000 (18.00%) | 3,000,000 | 1 |
| 9 | Love & Death: Season 1 | 18,400,000 | 2,900,000 | 1 |
| 10 | Mark Rober’s CrunchLabs: Season 3 | 6,400,000 | 2,900,000 | 1 |
English Film
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man | 48,100,000 | 25,300,000 | 1 |
| 2 | War Machine | 32,700,000 (-59.43%) | 18,000,000 | 3 |
| 3 | Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere | 9,500,000 (-1.04%) | 6,300,000 | 2 |
| 4 | KPop Demon Hunters | 9,000,000 (2.27%) | 5,400,000 | 40 |
| 5 | Gaslit By My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story | 7,700,000 | 5,200,000 | 1 |
| 6 | Nobody 2 | 7,200,000 (56.52%) | 4,900,000 | 2 |
| 7 | 27 Dresses | 7,300,000 (48.98%) | 3,900,000 | 2 |
| 8 | Double Jeopardy | 5,800,000 (-6.45%) | 3,300,000 | 2 |
| 9 | Shark Tale | 4,900,000 (-39.51%) | 3,300,000 | 3 |
| 10 | The Bad Guardian | 4,200,000 | 2,900,000 | 1 |
Non-English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG | 14,400,000 | 13,100,000 | 1 |
| 2 | STEEL BALL RUN JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: 1st STAGE | 3,700,000 | 4,700,000 | 1 |
| 3 | That Night: Limited Series | 18,100,000 (16.03%) | 4,400,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Radioactive Emergency: Season 1 | 19,400,000 | 3,800,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Phantom Lawyer: Season 1 | 10,700,000 (167.50%) | 2,400,000 | 2 |
| 6 | Boyfriend on Demand: Limited Series | 23,600,000 (-50.63%) | 2,400,000 | 3 |
| 7 | Furies: Season 2 Resistance | 8,800,000 | 1,900,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Pursuit of Jade: Season 1 | 43,400,000 (26.90%) | 1,800,000 | 2 |
| 9 | A Friend, a Murderer: Limited Series | 2,600,000 (-65.33%) | 1,200,000 | 3 |
| 10 | Girl From Nowhere The Reset: Season 1 | 2,400,000 (-17.24%) | 1,100,000 | 3 |
Non-English Film
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Made in Korea | 12,700,000 (64.94%) | 6,700,000 | 2 |
| 2 | Border 2 | 11,100,000 | 3,300,000 | 1 |
| 3 | Dhurandhar | 7,900,000 (132.35%) | 2,300,000 | 8 |
| 4 | Firebreak | 2,100,000 (-30.00%) | 1,200,000 | 5 |
| 5 | The Secret Agent | 2,700,000 (-64.47%) | 1,000,000 | 2 |
| 6 | Sosok Ketiga: Lintrik | 1,900,000 | 1,000,000 | 1 |
| 7 | With Love | 2,100,000 (-50.00%) | 900,000 | 3 |
| 8 | The Dreamseller | 1,400,000 | 900,000 | 1 |
| 9 | The Pact | 1,700,000 | 900,000 | 1 |
| 10 | Retirement Home | 1,300,000 | 800,000 | 1 |
That’s it for this week’s top 10 report. We’ll be back next week with more stories.
