The Perfect Neighbor Breaks Netflix Record as The Diplomat S3 Slips and The Twits Struggle

Welcome back to another top 10 report, where we’re covering the biggest stories from the viewership numbers for the week of October 13th to October 19th, 2025. Lots to cover with several debuts, which include a few disappointments such as The Twits, The Diplomat S3, and She Walks In Darkness. We’re also doing check-ins on Boots, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Alice in Borderland S3, and House of Guinness. 

Before we dig into it, a couple of omissions, and they’re both sports. Starting 5 came back last Thursday with season 2, and once again failed to rank in the weekly top 10s. Worse still, the series actually didn’t feature in any country’s daily top 10s either. Season 1, for comparison, featured in the US top 10s for 8 days and 18 other regions. A no-show for Six Kings Slam, the live tennis event, too, albeit it did get into the daily top 10s in 49 countries. Not a great week for sports. 

Another big omission is Turn of the Tide, the returning Portuguese series that’s already been renewed for a third season…

Finally, we should also note that Wednesday season 2 has jumped another place in the all-time top 10, now ranking fifth. It’s still got until December to pick up views, so our estimate of it being around #4 when all is said and done is pretty much spot-on. 

As always, let’s begin with the weekly rankings:

• English TV: 42,700,000 (Rank 76 of 122 weeks)
• English Film: 92,100,000 (Rank 24 of 122 weeks)
• Non-English TV: 31,100,000 (Rank 38 of 122 weeks)
• Non-English Film: 39,700,000 (Rank 42 of 122 weeks)

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Full Top 10 Data for October 13th to October 19th

English TV

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	Monster: The Ed Gein Story: Season 1	70,500,000	9,500,000 (-54.11%)	3
2	Boots: Season 1	55,200,000	9,400,000 (100.00%)	2
3	The Diplomat: Season 3	31,400,000	4,800,000	1
4	Victoria Beckham: Limited Series	9,300,000	3,800,000 (-32.14%)	2
5	Wayward: Limited Series	18,900,000	3,200,000 (-41.82%)	4
6	Is It Cake? Halloween: Season 1	7,600,000	2,900,000 (-49.12%)	2
7	Love Is Blind: Season 9	30,700,000	2,700,000 (-34.15%)	3
8	Raw: October 13, 2025	4,600,000	2,400,000 (0.00%)	1
9	House of Guinness: Season 1	14,700,000	2,100,000 (-38.24%)	4
10	Wednesday: Season 2	14,400,000	1,900,000 (-17.39%)	11

English Film 

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	The Woman in Cabin 10	47,700,000	30,100,000 (41.98%)	2
2	The Perfect Neighbor	27,500,000	16,700,000	1
3	KPop Demon Hunters	27,000,000	16,200,000 (-8.99%)	18
4	My Father, the BTK Killer	10,100,000	6,400,000	2
5	The Twits	10,200,000	5,900,000	1
6	Vacation	7,100,000	4,300,000	1
7	Despicable Me 3	5,400,000	3,600,000 (-18.18%)	11
8	The Secret Life of Pets 2	4,600,000	3,200,000	10
9	Taken in Plain Sight	4,200,000	2,900,000	1
10	The Maze Runner	5,200,000	2,800,000 (-26.32%)	4

Non-English TV

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	No One Saw Us Leave: Season 1	33,000,000	8,000,000	1
2	Old Money: Season 1	32,800,000	5,800,000 (48.72%)	2
3	Genie, Make a Wish: Season 1	44,100,000	3,400,000 (-57.50%)	3
4	Néro the Assassin: Season 1	23,000,000	3,300,000 (-26.67%)	2
5	Typhoon Family: Limited Series	11,300,000	2,300,000	1
6	Romantics Anonymous: Season 1	13,500,000	2,100,000	1
7	Alice in Borderland: Season 3	11,900,000	1,800,000 (-41.94%)	4
8	Old Dog, New Tricks: Season 1	6,700,000	1,600,000 (-69.23%)	3
9	Bon Appétit, Your Majesty: Limited Series	22,800,000	1,500,000 (-31.82%)	9
10	The Guest: Season 1	18,900,000	1,300,000 (-31.58%)	4

Non-English Film

Rank	Title	Hours	Views	Week #
1	Caramelo	25,200,000	15,000,000 (-13.29%)	2
2	Inside Furioza	19,900,000	7,100,000	1
3	War 2	10,200,000	3,500,000 (2.94%)	2
4	She Walks in Darkness	4,900,000	2,700,000	1
5	27 Nights	4,000,000	2,200,000	1
6	Swim to Me	3,700,000	2,200,000 (10.00%)	2
7	A Woman with No Filter	2,900,000	1,900,000	1
8	Furioza	4,300,000	1,800,000	5
9	Good News	3,900,000	1,700,000	1
10	Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead	3,500,000	1,600,000	1

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1. The Diplomat is back, but did it bounce back?

Season 3 of The Diplomat debuted last week and is proving that you can still lose audience even if you return with new episodes on an annual basis. It experienced a 14% drop on the season 2 premiere and a 43% drop on the season 1 premiere. 

Of course, the series has already been renewed for a fourth season, with production due to get underway relatively soon, according to our latest intel. Could these numbers point to season 4 wrapping things up? We’ll get to find out soon enough, but this is an incredibly awards-friendly series and continues to score excellent reviews. Don’t count it out just yet.  

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2. The Twits

It was always going to be big boots to fill following the summer that’s been dominated by KPop Demon Hunters to live up to expectations. Still, The Twits put in a relatively low debut compared to other animated debuts in recent years, with just 5.9M views in its opening 3 days. It might not have helped that reviews have been middling (including our own), but fingers crossed this sees a bump in the weeks to come. 

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3. Monster: The Ed Gein Story Check-In – It’s Falling Behind! 

It’s now been three weeks since Monster season 3 debuted, and we’ve been closely tracking how well it’s performing against prior Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan entries. It saw a 54% drop in viewing hours in week 3, bringing its total view count to 42.4 M. 

With prior caveats that each of these shows was released on different days, Ed Gein is now falling behind The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Was Netflix’s hands-off approach to promoting this one the reason why it’s lagging, or were people unable to stomach the rather grim depiction? We’ll leave that to you. 

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4. The Perfect Neighbor Puts In A Barn-Storming First Weekend

Traditionally, we’ve seen big feature documentaries released on a Wednesday, but that seems to have shifted this year, and it’s paying off…The Perfect Neighbor, which has been touring film festivals over the past few months following its Sundance Film Festival premiere, put in an incredible performance in week 1, clocking in 16.7M views. By our estimate, that’s the best launch for any documentary on a Friday in Netflix’s history. 

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5. Boots in week 2

Will Boots come back for season 2? That’s the big question we have here, and we’re still 50/50. It scored a glowing endorsement from the US Government, but viewership figures still have it around the middle of the pack of recent English TV premieres. Gun to our head, we’d predict a renewal for this one if it falls into Netflix’s comedy bucket and scores some leeway thanks to positive reviews and a subject matter that’s a bit more niche than some of the bigger shows that got canceled this year, such as The Waterfront and Pulse. 

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6. She Walks in Darkness Debuts at #4 on the Non-English Chart

It was a rough start for She Walks in Darkness, which has one of the weakest debuts for a Spanish-language movie released on a Friday in quite some time. Given J.A. Boyena’s involvement and its recent theatrical release in Spain, plus festival coverage, hopes would’ve been much higher. 

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7. No One Saw Us Leave

Netflix in Latin America had a much better week with No One Saw Us Leave debuting at the #1 spot on the Non-English TV spot, picking up 8M views. That places it among the most-watched Wednesday series debuts in the region, albeit behind The Eternaut, The Accident, and Caught.

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8. Old Money Has a Big Rise in Week 2

We didn’t highlight it last week, but the Turkish drama series Old Money saw viewing hours rise by nearly 50% this week. That makes it a huge debut for a Turkish show, and given that fact that it’s broken out in 76 regions, we’d bet a lot that this gets a second season. 

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10. Alice in Borderland and House of Guinness Check-Ins

A few more check-ins to round us out! Alice in Borderland S3 is still ranking in the non-English TV series top 10, although it’s now fallen quite behind season 2. Given the ending, this is very much expected to get a season 4 renewal order of some description. 

House of Guinness is much harder to see a future for… Now in week 4, the show is lagging behind most of its British counterparts, and given that it looks like a costly series, it’s hard to see it getting a renewal despite a cliffhanger ending. Fingers crossed we’re wrong, but it’s tracking awfully close to KAOS… 

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Those are our picks of the biggest stories from the top 10s this week – what are your biggest takeaways this week? Let us know in the comments.