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Pleased Christmas, and in accordance with Netflix, you might have been a part of the viewership that made it the streamer’s greatest Christmas Day viewership so far. A lot of tales within the high 10s this week, with Stranger Issues coming again with a large bang, plus the debuts of Goodbye June and Cashero. Listed below are all the massive Netflix high 10 tales for the week ending December twenty eighth.
Not like final yr, Netflix has not but launched NFL Christmas Gameday numbers at present, nor does it appear the printed was eligible for the each day US high 10s this yr (albeit it did characteristic elsewhere). Netflix declined to remark, and we’ll let you recognize if and once we hear in another way.
As all the time, let’s dig in with the weekly stats for the 4 totally different classes:
- English TV – 87,900,000 (Rank 3 of 132 weeks)
- English Movie – 77,600,000 (Rank 61 of 132 weeks)
- Non-English TV – 25,400,000 (Rank 83 of 132 weeks)
- Non-English Movie – 54,200,000 (Rank 20 of 132 weeks)
Let’s break down the highest 10s:
English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stranger Issues 5 | 284,800,000 | 34,500,000 (320.73%) | 5 |
| 2 | Emily in Paris: Season 5 | 76,800,000 | 13,300,000 (-1.48%) | 2 |
| 3 | Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable… | 11,600,000 | 9,200,000 (178.79%) | 2 |
| 4 | Man Vs Child: Season 1 | 15,500,000 | 7,900,000 (-45.89%) | 3 |
| 5 | Stranger Issues | 32,600,000 | 4,800,000 (-41.46%) | 19 |
| 6 | Stranger Issues 4 | 53,300,000 | 4,100,000 (-50.00%) | 25 |
| 7 | Sean Combs: The Reckoning: Season 1 | 15,200,000 | 3,700,000 (-41.27%) | 4 |
| 8 | Stranger Issues 3 | 27,300,000 | 3,600,000 (-56.10%) | 17 |
| 9 | Stranger Issues 2 | 28,300,000 | 3,600,000 (-56.10%) | 17 |
| 10 | Fire for Your Dwelling: Crackling Birchwood Fire | 3,200,000 | 3,200,000 | 4 |
English Movie
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch | 23,700,000 | 16,500,000 (103.70%) | 14 |
| 2 | Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller | 28,700,000 | 11,800,000 (-43.54%) | 3 |
| 3 | KPop Demon Hunters | 15,100,000 | 9,100,000 (15.19%) | 28 |
| 4 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 13,300,000 | 7,700,000 | 8 |
| 5 | Goodbye June | 13,600,000 | 7,000,000 | 1 |
| 6 | My Secret Santa | 10,200,000 | 6,700,000 (-9.46%) | 4 |
| 7 | The Christmas Chronicles | 10,100,000 | 5,800,000 (65.71%) | 9 |
| 8 | Wrath of Man | 9,300,000 | 4,700,000 | 1 |
| 9 | Tomb Raider | 8,200,000 | 4,200,000 | 2 |
| 10 | Jingle Bell Heist | 6,600,000 | 4,100,000 | 3 |
Non-English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culinary Class Wars: Season 2 | 44,800,000 | 4,700,000 (-14.55%) | 2 |
| 2 | Cashero: Restricted Collection | 26,500,000 | 3,800,000 | 1 |
| 3 | Dynamite Kiss: Restricted Collection | 50,800,000 | 3,300,000 (-8.33%) | 7 |
| 4 | The Accident: Season 2 | 10,300,000 | 2,300,000 (-46.51%) | 3 |
| 5 | Metropolis of Shadows: Restricted Collection | 10,400,000 | 2,200,000 (-51.11%) | 3 |
| 6 | Idol I: 시즌 1 | 4,200,000 | 2,100,000 | 1 |
| 7 | Badly in Love: Season 1 | 14,000,000 | 1,900,000 (-13.64%) | 3 |
| 8 | The Nice Indian Kapil Present: Season 4 | 3,900,000 | 1,700,000 | 1 |
| 9 | The Value of Confession: Season 1 | 17,500,000 | 1,700,000 (-37.04%) | 4 |
| 10 | Document of Ragnarok: Season 3 | 10,400,000 | 1,700,000 (-48.48%) | 3 |
Non-English Movie
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Nice Flood | 60,100,000 | 33,100,000 (18.64%) | 2 |
| 2 | A Time For Bravery | 14,700,000 | 8,200,000 (164.52%) | 2 |
| 3 | Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders | 8,500,000 | 3,700,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Troll 2 | 4,600,000 | 2,600,000 (-16.13%) | 4 |
| 5 | 10DANCE | 3,500,000 | 1,600,000 (-38.46%) | 2 |
| 6 | RaPo 22 | 3,500,000 | 1,300,000 | 1 |
| 7 | Jumbo | 1,900,000 | 1,100,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Dangal | 2,400,000 | 900,000 | 1 |
| 9 | Gatao: Large Brothers | 1,800,000 | 900,000 | 1 |
| 10 | La Tahzan: Cinta, Dosa, Luka | 1,900,000 | 800,000 (-27.27%) | 2 |
1. Stranger Issues Will get A Large (Anticipated Bump) With Quantity 2 Launch
Stranger Issues Quantity 2 returned on Christmas Day with a primetime launch, and that’s led, naturally, to an enormous increase in hours watched for the sequence. In actual fact, it noticed a 632% increase in week 5. Sadly, Netflix didn’t do something to assist us higher perceive the cut up season, apart from stating, “Quantity 2 of the brand new season made December 25 Netflix’s most-watched Christmas Day ever globally.”
Right here’s the desk because it stands as of week 5, with hours watched now hitting 773.8 million viewing hours:
| Week in Prime 10 | Week Interval | Hours Seen | Views / CVE | Weekly Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nov 23 to Nov 30, 2025 | 284,200,000 (New) | 59,600,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Nov 30 to Dec 7, 2025 | 112,700,000 (-60%) | 23,600,000 | 1 |
| 3 | Dec 7 to Dec 14, 2025 | 53,200,000 (-53%) | 11,200,000 | 3 |
| 4 | Dec 14 to Dec 21, 2025 | 38,900,000 (-27%) | 8,200,000 | 4 |
| 5 | Dec 21 to Dec 28, 2025 | 284,800,000 (+632%) | 34,500,000 | 1 |
As we’ve lined a number of instances with cut up seasons, evaluating views is futile as a result of the calculation adjustments considerably with every new episode launch. That’s as a result of the runtime will get giant and is utilized to viewing hours of each volumes 1 and a couple of. Likewise, it’ll get even messier subsequent week when we now have viewing hours for the finale combined in.
Stacking up the hours watched, you’ll be able to see beneath that season 4 had a bonus with its episode releases (7 for half 1 and a couple of for half 2), that means it had the chance to get an enormous construct in hours. Stranger Issues S5 will probably now start in a short time, catching up, notably with the finale on the way in which. For comparability’s sake, I’ve additionally included Squid Sport season 1 to point out you ways a conventional present picks up hours with out an episode cut up within the center.
One approach to examine cut up seasons considerably on a 1:1 foundation is a technique devised by Frederic of Netflix and Chiffres, which provides up all of the hours and divides by the runtime of volumes 1 and a couple of on the week of launch. Utilizing this technique, you arrive at 773.8M hours watched, which, when utilized to the runtime of 8 hours and quarter-hour, yields 93.8M views. That places it forward of each different cut up season, together with season 4. Once more, this technique isn’t good, provided that, as you’ll be able to see from the graph above, half 2 of season 4 didn’t come out till week 6.
Break up season views – Image Credit score: What’s on Netflix
2. Goodbye June Debuts Low
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Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, Goodbye June, premiered on Christmas Eve. It didn’t do a lot enterprise on Netflix, rating close to the underside amongst English-language films launched on Wednesdays over the previous few years. It ranked #5 for English films for the week with 13.6M hours watched equating to 7M views.
For probably the most half, solely Christmas films, British films, and rom-coms are launched on Wednesdays now, whereas most high-profile films nonetheless launch on Fridays.
3. The Nice Flood Will get Greater And Already Eying Spot On Netflix’s All-Time Most Watched Checklist
Final week, we lined how The Nice Flood set a file as the largest Korean film launched on a Friday. Its file is additional prolonged this week because it gained an almost 20% bump in viewing hours, which is unparalleled as worldwide movies of this nature often degree out pretty shortly. Not the case right here. Because it stands in week 2, the film is as much as 110.7M hours watched and 61M views.
Now the query turns into, is the film eying a spot on Netflix’s all-time most-watched listing for non-English films? The reply is sure! Relying on its efficiency within the weeks to return, it may simply be eying a spot within the high 5 and even rival Troll for the crown if it performs its playing cards proper:
4. A Time For Bravery Sees Large Increase in Week 2
The Mexican crime-comedy obtained off to a reasonably poor begin within the high 10s however noticed a 163% rise in viewing hours in its second full week on the platform. That’s nonetheless not sufficient to place it above a few of its different Mexican counterparts in recent times, however it’s an fascinating soar:
5. Cashero Debuts Sturdy
We’ve seen from our personal visitors within the run-up to launch that Cashero was going to be a success, and it delivered, beating out most different restricted sequence from South Korea by a good bit. Certain, it obtained a good Christmas launch, however it nonetheless delivered.
6. A Couple Test-Ins
Sorry to say, however we’re calling time on Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller and labeling it one of many greatest disappointments of 2025. It’s lagging considerably behind the second film, with solely 52.9M views, which suggests by week 3 (give or take a couple of days) it’s down 51%.
Emily in Paris, as we lined final week, has dropped a bit in comparison with prior seasons, and that pattern holds in week 2, however it’s nothing disastrous, and we’re nonetheless absolutely anticipating it to land a season 6 renewal (albeit the present is probably going coming to an finish quickly sufficient).
That’s it for this week – we’ll be again subsequent week for extra on the highest 10s however maintain an eye fixed out for the largest flops and disappointments developing tomorrow and the largest winners within the weeks to return!
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