It’s a busy week on the Netflix charts with several heavy hitters returning, but the big story is the diminishing returns for one of Netflix’s biggest action franchises, The Night Agent. Meanwhile, the unscripted slate is performing exceptionally well, with Reality Check taking the top spot. Here’s a look at the biggest stories for the week.
Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours viewed from February 16, 2026, to February 22, 2026, we use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or CVE, expressed in millions. That means we divide the hours viewed by the titles’ runtime.
If you’re looking for some analysis on The Night Agent, we’ve already done that seperately and the news is not great. The show continues to shed its audience season after season, with season 3 now close to 60% down on season 1’s numbers.
Also, just a small note about the English movies this week. We’ve been noticing lately that many of the licensed movie pickups from 20th Century Fox (Prometheus) and MGM (The Addams Family) have been mostly global additions, leading to much bigger debuts in the top 10s.
Finally, on the notes front, we’re experimenting with a new tool on our Netflix Top 10 search page that lets you go back through all of Netflix’s data, with a 91-day prediction graph now showing in specific instances, such as on The Rip. This chart examines prior decay rates for Netflix titles and maps out bull, base, and bear cases for where it might end up at the 91-day mark.
The Rip – 91-Day Prediction Chart
OK, enough ado! Onwards with the top 10 report, beginning with how this week ranks compared to all prior top 10 weeks, which gives us some idea as to how well each category performed this week:
English TV – 54,600,000 views (Rank 42 of 140 weeks)
English Film – 49,200,000 views (Rank 133 of 140 weeks)
Non-English TV: 32,700,000 (Rank 39 of 140 weeks)
Non-English Film: 35,100,000 (Rank 64 of 140 weeks)
1. Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model Is A Hit, But It Won’t Topple American Murder
Beating out the spy thriller The Night Agent for the top spot on Netflix’s English TV list is Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model. The docu-series/reality hybrid pulled in a massive 14.2M views in its first week. It was clear it was going to do well fairly early on, with incredible views being picked up across social media, but how does it stack up against other docu-series released on a Monday? Very well, but nowhere near the heights of American Murder: Gabby Petito, which likely won’t have its crown stolen anytime soon.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - American Murder: Gabby Petito, Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and 3 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 8 Netflix titles: American Murder: Gabby Petito, Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders, You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, Surviving Black Hawk Down, Missing: Dead or Alive? - Season 2. Combined total: 104,900,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for American Murder: Gabby Petito, Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders and 3 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
American Murder: Gabby Petito
31,300,000
1
Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model
14,200,000
2
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
13,400,000
3
Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer
13,000,000
4
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
11,900,000
5
You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment
8,000,000
6
Surviving Black Hawk Down
7,900,000
7
Missing: Dead or Alive? - Season 2
5,200,000
8
2. A Final Check-In With Bridgerton Before Part 2 Drops
Picture Credit: Netflix
Next week, Bridgerton’snumbers will become jumbled, as views will switch to covering both parts 1 and 2 of the show, and we can no longer clearly differentiate between them. How well are we doing as of week 4? Well, as we’ve covered throughout the run so far, season 4 is pulling in slightly fewer views than season 3, but nothing to balk at or even worry about, given that the show is already renewed through season 6. Season 4 remains about 12% down which considering The Night Agent is nearly 40% down season over season, it puts it into perspective…
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Bridgerton - Season 3 and Bridgerton - Season 4 (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 2 Netflix titles: Bridgerton - Season 3, Bridgerton - Season 4. Combined total: 84,800,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Bridgerton - Season 3 and Bridgerton - Season 4 over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Bridgerton - Season 3
45,100,000
1
Bridgerton - Season 4
39,700,000
2
3. Low Debut For Being Gordon Ramsey
Want an all-access look at the TV chef Gordon Ramsey and see how rich he is? Apparently, the answer is yes for quite a few of you, with the show ranking #10 in the charts this week with 2.7M views. That puts it toward the lower end of other documentary series released on Wednesdays, however.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Amy Bradley Is Missing, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia and 3 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 8 Netflix titles: Amy Bradley Is Missing, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes, Being Gordon Ramsay, Turning Point: The Vietnam War. Combined total: 47,800,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Amy Bradley Is Missing, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia and 3 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Amy Bradley Is Missing
12,200,000
1
Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing
9,800,000
2
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
7,300,000
3
American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson
5,500,000
4
Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia
4,800,000
5
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
3,400,000
6
Being Gordon Ramsay
2,700,000
7
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
2,100,000
8
4. The Lincoln Lawyer Still Comfortably Ahead of Season 3
The Lincoln Lawyer has defied the odds and actually risen in viewership season over season, with it now tracking at 23.5M views as of week 3, which is above the 20.5M that season 3 was at at the same point in time. While it’s now ducked just beneath season 1’s performance, it’s a show with a lot of legs and popularity. We’re fully expecting an early season 6 renewal.
Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time - The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 4, The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 3 and The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 (6-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 3 Netflix titles: The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 4, The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 3, The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1. Combined final total: 91,200,000 views.
Weekly cumulative Netflix views for The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 4, The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 3 and The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1 over 6 weeks.
Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Final cumulative
The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 4
0
9,000,000
18,600,000
23,500,000
26,400,000
—
—
26,400,000
The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 3
0
7,000,000
15,500,000
20,500,000
23,900,000
26,400,000
28,100,000
28,100,000
The Lincoln Lawyer - Season 1
0
5,400,000
18,400,000
26,200,000
31,300,000
34,600,000
36,700,000
36,700,000
5. The Museum of Innocence from Netflix Turkey
The only major new debut non-English TV show to break into the top 10s this week was the Turkish series The Museum of Innocence, which debuts at #4 in the charts. A decent start compared to other Turkish shows released on a Friday, with it clocking just under Old Money and Who Were We Running From? (which I can’t embed because it has a question mark – another bug to fix!) which had 4.1M views. It did get a big international push, rare for a series from Turkey which could explain why it’s elevated somewhat.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Old Money - Season 1, The Museum of Innocence, Shahmaran - Season 1 and The Tailor - Season 3 (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 4 Netflix titles: Old Money - Season 1, The Museum of Innocence, Shahmaran - Season 1, The Tailor - Season 3. Combined total: 12,200,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Old Money - Season 1, The Museum of Innocence, Shahmaran - Season 1 and The Tailor - Season 3 over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Old Money - Season 1
3,900,000
1
The Museum of Innocence
3,800,000
2
Shahmaran - Season 1
2,500,000
3
The Tailor - Season 3
2,000,000
4
6. The Art of Sarah is a hit for Netflix South Korea
Last week, we reported that The Art of Sarah, a new limited series from South Korea, had a pretty OK debut, but this week, it had a jump of 159% in viewing hours, and now we’re pretty good to call it a 2026 hit for Netflix.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - My Name, Hierarchy, The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Parasyte: The Grey, The Art of Sarah and 15 more Netflix titles (2-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 2 weeks for 20 Netflix titles: My Name, Hierarchy, The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Parasyte: The Grey, The Art of Sarah, Can This Love Be Translated?, Narco-Saints, The Silent Sea, Mask Girl, As You Stood By, Cashero, Karma, Trigger, The Price of Confession, Trigger, Doona!, Dear Hongrang, Dear Hongrang, You and Everything Else, Aema. Combined total: 204,000,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for My Name, Hierarchy, The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Parasyte: The Grey, The Art of Sarah and 15 more Netflix titles over 2 weeks.
Title
Cumulative Views (2 weeks)
Rank
My Name
19,000,000
1
Hierarchy
17,100,000
2
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call
16,600,000
3
Parasyte: The Grey
16,100,000
4
The Art of Sarah
13,800,000
5
Can This Love Be Translated?
13,000,000
6
Narco-Saints
13,000,000
7
The Silent Sea
11,600,000
8
Mask Girl
10,200,000
9
As You Stood By
10,100,000
10
Cashero
9,900,000
11
Karma
8,400,000
12
Trigger
7,900,000
13
The Price of Confession
7,900,000
14
Trigger
7,900,000
15
Doona!
7,300,000
16
Dear Hongrang
5,700,000
17
Dear Hongrang
5,700,000
18
You and Everything Else
1,700,000
19
Aema
1,100,000
20
7. The Swedish Connection for Netflix Sweden
Never a great sign when Netflix doesn’t bother with an English-language version of the trailer for a film, but despite that, it’s about where you’d expect a film from the Nordics to be performing.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Troll, Trouble, Royalteen: Princess Margrethe, The Swedish Connection, An Honest Life and 1 more Netflix title (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 6 Netflix titles: Troll, Trouble, Royalteen: Princess Margrethe, The Swedish Connection, An Honest Life, The Wrong Track. Combined total: 64,100,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Troll, Trouble, Royalteen: Princess Margrethe, The Swedish Connection, An Honest Life and 1 more Netflix title over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Troll
43,800,000
1
Trouble
10,000,000
2
Royalteen: Princess Margrethe
3,700,000
3
The Swedish Connection
2,700,000
4
An Honest Life
2,000,000
5
The Wrong Track
1,900,000
6
8. Firebreak for Netflix Spain
Netflix Spain has had a rotten start to the year, and while 6.1M views for its new thriller Firebreak isn’t horrendous, it’s certainly not up to the level of viewership of two of its other recent movies.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Bad Influence, A Widow's Game, Firebreak and She Walks in Darkness (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 4 Netflix titles: Bad Influence, A Widow's Game, Firebreak, She Walks in Darkness. Combined total: 41,100,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Bad Influence, A Widow's Game, Firebreak and She Walks in Darkness over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Bad Influence
16,900,000
1
A Widow's Game
15,400,000
2
Firebreak
6,100,000
3
She Walks in Darkness
2,700,000
4
9. The Orphans for Netflix France
A similar story for The Orphans from France, which debuted with 5.3M views. Not a great debut by any stretch compared to some of the heavy hitters released on a Friday from the region in years past.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - Ad Vitam, K.O., The Wages of Fear, French Lover, The Orphans and 2 more Netflix titles (1-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 1 weeks for 7 Netflix titles: Ad Vitam, K.O., The Wages of Fear, French Lover, The Orphans, All-Time High, Seasons. Combined total: 59,300,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for Ad Vitam, K.O., The Wages of Fear, French Lover, The Orphans and 2 more Netflix titles over 1 weeks.
Title
Opening Week Views
Rank
Ad Vitam
17,100,000
1
K.O.
14,000,000
2
The Wages of Fear
11,000,000
3
French Lover
8,100,000
4
The Orphans
5,300,000
5
All-Time High
2,700,000
6
Seasons
1,100,000
7
10. Did Joe’s College Road Trip see a big jump?
Last week, we covered how Tyler Perry’s latest movie entry was tracking quite a few of his other titles below, but has it closed the gap? Not really with viewing hours actually declining by 16%. It’s still sitting above A Jazzman’s Blues but below, now significantly, most of his other movies, including both Madea titles.
Netflix Viewership Comparison - The Six Triple Eight, Madea's Destination Wedding, Mea Culpa, A Madea Homecoming and Joe's College Road Trip (2-week analysis)
Cumulative views over 2 weeks for 5 Netflix titles: The Six Triple Eight, Madea's Destination Wedding, Mea Culpa, A Madea Homecoming, Joe's College Road Trip. Combined total: 163,100,000 views.
Netflix cumulative views ranking for The Six Triple Eight, Madea's Destination Wedding, Mea Culpa, A Madea Homecoming and Joe's College Road Trip over 2 weeks.
Title
Cumulative Views (2 weeks)
Rank
The Six Triple Eight
37,600,000
1
Madea's Destination Wedding
35,600,000
2
Mea Culpa
34,500,000
3
A Madea Homecoming
32,500,000
4
Joe's College Road Trip
22,900,000
5
Full List of Netflix Top 10s for February 16th to February 22nd, 2026