‘Wednesday’ S2 Scores Big Viewing Bump With Part 2 & ‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ Triples Its Views – Netflix Top 10 Report

Welcome along to another top 10 report! This week, we cover the return of Wednesday with season 2 part 2, which saw a 500%+ bump in viewing hours, and all the other big stories from this week’s top 10 numbers. 

All the numbers for this article are sourced from Netflix’s official top 10 site. You can also browse all of Netflix’s data easily using our top 10 search tool.

As always, let’s see how this week’s top 10s stack up against prior weeks:

• English TV – 64,400,000 (Rank 7 of 116 weeks)
• English Film – 92,400,000 (Rank 22 of 116 weeks)
• Non-English TV – 28,700,000 (Rank 54 of 116 weeks)
• Non-English Film – 30,700,000 (Rank 75 of 116 weeks)

Quick note on an omission or two: Pokémon Concierge returned with “more episodes” within season 1, but that labeling looks to have been a mistake, given that the series missed out on the top 10s entirely this week. The new Countdown series, ahead of the big live fight on Saturday, Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford, also failed to feature much like Countdown: Taylor vs Serrano, although the one for Mike Tyson and Jake Paul did. 

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1. Wednesday is back! Will Season 3 be a split season? Show tracking below S1.

Wednesday is back this week with a 549% rise in viewing hours, with 219.20M viewing hours equating to 28.2M views in week 5. 

Week in Top 10	Week Period	Hours Viewed	Views / CVE	Weekly Rank
1	Aug 3 to Aug 10, 2025	201,600,000 (New)	50,000,000	1
2	Aug 10 to Aug 17, 2025	117,300,000 (-42%)	29,100,000	1
3	Aug 17 to Aug 24, 2025	54,000,000 (-54%)	13,400,000	1
4	Aug 24 to Aug 31, 2025	33,800,000 (-37%)	8,400,000	3
5	Aug 31 to Sep 7, 2025	219,200,000 (+549%)	28,200,000	1

As we’ve covered before, split seasons are tricky because the viewing hours we get when a part 2 releases are a jumble of both parts, making comparisons especially tricky. 

That’s why we’ve tapped our old resident numbers expert to get his opinion. 

Frederic’s (Netflix & Chiffres) method involves combining the viewing hours from the first four weeks of Part 1, treating that total as “Week 1,” and then dividing by the runtime of the entire season. The first weeks of Part 1 and Part 2 are then combined as “Week 2,” and so on. This approach makes it possible to track the evolution of total season views, which is especially relevant for the all-time Top 10 rankings.

Using this method, the total number of views for Wednesday Season 2 (as of Sunday) can be compared directly with other split releases. However, it cannot be applied to Cobra Kai Season 6 because the release parts were too far apart, and it also does not work if complete viewing data for Part 1 is unavailable up to the release of Part 2.

Here’s what that looks like: 

Using that method, Wednesday is the second-best-performing split season to date, just behind Stranger Things season 4. That inevitably means season 2 will enter Netflix’s all-time top 10, but when? 

It should be in the next few weeks, and Frederic predicts it’s currently eying the #4 position and will end up with a total of between 110M and 135M views (down 50% on S1)

As a reminder, here’s how Netflix’s 91-day metric works with split releases:

• Netflix adds the viewings hours for the first batch of four episodes over the full 91 days after the Part 1 release plus the view hours for the Part 2 episodes over the full 91 days after the release of part 2, and divide by the total runtime of the two batches together.
• When the second batch releases, that runtime increases to account for the full series.
• Part 1 viewing will be added to Part 2 viewing for Most Popular consideration once all episodes have premiered.
• The show will be eligible to enter the Most Popular list up to 91 days after Part 2 release.

Want to see the jump on a line graph? Here are some of Netflix’s recent split seasons, and you can see the dramatic jump. Does this mean season 3 of Wednesday will be split? We’d bet yes because, compared to some shows that have or are reverting to binge releases, Wednesday can clearly maintain its momentum over two months. 

Bearing in mind this chart is tracking the hours, not the views, here’s a look at Wednesday S2 vs other split seasons so far:

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2. KPop Demon Hunters Experiences Gravity For The First Time… 

KPOP Demon Hunters finally, in week 12, suffered a double-digit percentage drop. Still, amazingly, that’s not quite as bad as it sounds, given that it basically dropped to the viewership number it was at before the Sing-Along version was released. Truly incredible given that the graph below still resembles a straight line and will surely be unbeatable for many, many years to come… 

As a reminder, the 91-day period for KPop Demon Hunters ends on September 19th (next Friday as of the time of publishing), giving it ~12 days to accumulate more views for its final count. Based on its current trajectory, it’s going to be well north of 300M views. 

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3. Unknown Number: The High School Catfish and Love Con Revenge Lead Docs

We have a new contender for the most-watched documentary of the year. In week 2, views and viewing hours grew over 200% making it one of the biggest documentary jumps in Netflix history… 

Love Con Revenge released on Friday and debuted relatively ahead of the F1: Drive to Survive seasons with 3M views but far lower than the recent release of Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser, which soared in week 1 with 7.5M views.

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4. My Life With The Walter Boys in Week 2

In its second week, My Life with the Walter Boys saw viewing hours dip by 8% (compared to a 70% jump in season 1), but since season 2 opened at a much higher level, the outlook remains strong. The show is currently tracking ahead of season 1 with 22.7M views versus 20.3M.

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5. Ms. Rachel Returns

Ms. Rachel has had an exceptional run in 2025 in the Netflix top 10s featured for 24 weeks so far, with it often hovering around the tail end of the weekly top 10 English TV charts. Of course, part of the reason it can do so well with the views metric is that each season is only four episodes long, so with the arrival of season 2, how does it compare to the launch of season 1? 

My suspicion is that Ms. Rachel will follow a somewhat similar trajectory to CoComelon on Netflix whereby the more content that’s released over time not only dilutes the viewing hours across multiple seasons (no prizes for this) but also then reward newer shows that come into the algorithm for which there’s going to be quite a few towards the end of this year (such as Sesame Street) and beyond. 

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6. Two Graves in week 2!

Last week, we covered the Spanish series Two Graves and suggested it could be a big hit for Netflix Spain, so has that momentum carried into week 2? The answer is, a little bit, but The Gardener, released earlier this year, is tracking now slightly ahead and Berlin continues to seem out of reach for the foreseeable.

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That’s it for this week – we’ll be back with more top 10 stories next week.