'The Nice Flood' Is A Massive Hit and 'Emily in Paris' Season 5 Debuts Robust

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The weekly Netflix prime 10s are in! This week covers the highest 10 exhibits and flicks in each English and non-English languages for the week ending December twenty first, 2025, and there are fairly just a few fascinating debuts from final week’s new releases and ongoing tales we’re monitoring. So right here’s your weekly report. Let’s break all of it down!

As at all times, let’s first test in with how this week’s prime 10 compares in opposition to prior weeks, courting again to June twelfth, 2023:

English TV: 71,100,000 (Rank 9 of 131 weeks)
English Movie: 73,900,000 (Rank 68 of 131 weeks)
Non-English TV: 32,800,000 (Rank 37 of 131 weeks)
Non-English Movie: 44,900,000 (Rank 34 of 131 weeks)

Observe: If you wish to see our breakdown of the boxing viewership for Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua, we did that in a separate article over right here. Lengthy story quick, it falls effectively under each the Canelo vs. Crawford struggle from September and the Paul vs. Tyson struggle again in November 2024, however above Taylor vs Serrano.

We must also name out KPOP Demon Hunters once more, which is now in its twenty seventh week within the prime 10s and hit over half a billion views, an achievement famous by Netflix socials.

1. Emily in Paris Is Nonetheless Going Robust

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Emily is again and nonetheless going sturdy. Debuting with 78.2M viewing hours and 13.5M views, it wasn’t fairly sufficient to untopple Rowan Atkinson along with his four-part miniseries nonetheless taking the highest spot, nevertheless it is available in a detailed second.

Stacking up the present’s return in opposition to different returning Netflix exhibits from the previous yr or so, you’ll be able to see the opening week numbers carry out fairly favorably, rating between My Life with the Walter Boys S2 and The Night time Agent S2. Not dangerous in any respect, 5 seasons in.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Ginny and Georgia – Season 3	17,600,000	1
XO Kitty – Season 2	14,200,000	2
The Night time Agent – Season 2	13,900,000	3
Emily in Paris – Season 5	13,500,000	4
My Life with the Walter Boys – Season 2	11,800,000	5
YOU – Season 5	10,100,000	6
No person Desires This – Season 2	8,600,000	7
Virgin River – Season 6	8,100,000	8
The Witcher – Season 4	7,300,000	9
The Recruit – Season 2	5,900,000	10
The Diplomat – Season 2	5,600,000	11
The Diplomat – Season 3	4,800,000	12
Candy Magnolias – Season 4	4,000,000	13
FUBAR – Season 2	2,200,000	14

Trying again at prior seasons, you’ll be able to undoubtedly see a decline season over season. We will’t evaluate with season 4, provided that it was launched throughout two volumes, so the views had been larger earlier on and the runtime was shorter, making direct comparisons tougher.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Emily in Paris – Season 3	21,400,000	1
Emily in Paris – Season 2	21,200,000	2
Emily in Paris – Season 5	13,500,000	3

We’re at the moment predicting a probable renewal given these numbers to date, however the present does appear, not less than narratively, to be coming to a detailed, so we’ll see whether or not or not season 6 will probably be its final.

2. The Nice Flood Breaks a Netflix File

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A number of optimistic buzz over the weekend for The Nice Flood, the brand new Korean sci-fi film that’s change into an immediate streaming hit and is now carrying the accolade of being the “Greatest launch for a global movie launched on a Friday for the reason that starting of the rankings period.” Huzzah.

It debuted at #1 with 50.6M hours watched, equating to 27.9M views. Stacked up in opposition to prior Korean film launches, it’s pulled out fairly an unbelievable launch:

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
The Nice Flood	27,900,000	1
Ballerina	13,000,000	2
Carter	12,200,000	3
JUNG_E	11,600,000	4
Officer Black Belt	8,300,000	5
Mantis	7,000,000	6
Yaksha: Ruthless Operations	6,000,000	7
Believer 2	5,600,000	8
Unlocked	5,400,000	9
twentieth Century Woman	4,000,000	10
My Identify is Loh Kiwan	3,100,000	11
Good Information	1,700,000	12
Wonderland	1,500,000	13

3. Culinary Class Wars Debuts Stronger in Season 2

Staying with South Korea, one other win. The extreme actuality cooking present is again and is discovering audiences all all over the world. With seasons 1 and a couple of each debuting on a Tuesday and sustaining a considerably comparable launch cadence, we are able to evaluate them to season 1 and say viewership has grown. This yr, we’ve seen most returning actuality sequence going downwards in viewership, so this can be a welcome change.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Culinary Class Wars – Season 2	5,500,000	1
Culinary Class Wars – Season 1	3,800,000	2

4. Did Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller Decide Up The Tempo?

Final week, we reported how the brand new Knives Out film was across the center of the pack of latest 2025 film releases. Has something considerably modified in week 2? Not likely. It noticed a 3% rise in viewing hours, from 49.2M to 50.8M, and can doubtless begin dropping subsequent week. Right here’s the way it charts in opposition to the 2025 releases to this point:

Title	Cumulative Views (2 weeks)	Rank
Again in Motion	93,600,000	1
Completely happy Gilmore 2	87,500,000	2
STRAW	74,200,000	3
Frankenstein	62,900,000	4
Havoc	56,300,000	5
A Home of Dynamite	53,700,000	6
The Life Checklist	53,600,000	7
The Previous Guard 2	53,500,000	8
My Oxford 12 months	51,800,000	9
The Girl in Cabin 10	51,300,000	10
The Electrical State	47,700,000	11
The Thursday Homicide Membership	43,400,000	12
Wake Up Useless Man: A Knives Out Thriller	41,100,000	13
Kinda Pregnant	38,800,000	14
Madeas Vacation spot Marriage ceremony	35,600,000	15
Nonnas	35,300,000	16
La Dolce Villa	33,900,000	17
KPop Demon Hunters	33,400,000	18
Plankton: The Film	27,700,000	19
In Your Desires	24,900,000	20
Concern Road: Promenade Queen	19,200,000	21
Jay Kelly	14,100,000	22
The Twits	14,000,000	23
Practice Desires	13,100,000	24
Ballad of a Small Participant	11,800,000	25

Put extra starkly, stacking the road graphs of Glass Onion and Wake Up Useless Man, you’ll be able to see that Glass Onion had a far larger enhance in its second week. Unsure what to say about this one. I’m disillusioned in all of you.

5. Troll 2 Will Virtually Actually Miss Out On All-Time High 10

As regards to underperforming Netflix sequels, we’ve received dangerous information for Troll. Advert Vitam and AKA, two films on the decrease finish of Netflix’s all-time most-watched non-English films, are actually outperforming the long-awaited sequel to the Norwegian motion film. So we’re sorry to say, Troll 2, barring an enormous bounce over the Christmas interval, gained’t be getting a spot on the all-time most-watched checklist.

6. The Netflix Christmas 2025 Rom-Com Battle – Who Gained?

Netflix had 4 main new rom-coms for the vacation season, and it seems the most important was saved for final. My Secret Santa trailed Champagne Issues within the opening couple of weeks however has now firmly taken the lead. Sure, we are able to crown Alexandra Breckenridge and Ryan Eggold the winners of the Christmas film crown for 2025.

7. Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders & 10DANCE each debut low

A really gradual begin for Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders, the most recent Friday film launch from India, with the bottom debut of any movie for the final couple of years.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Jewel Thief The Heist Begins	7,800,000	1
Maharaj	5,300,000	2
Do Patti	5,000,000	3
Dhoom Dhaam	4,100,000	4
Nadaaniyan	3,900,000	5
Baramulla	3,700,000	6
Sector 36	3,600,000	7
Sikandar Ka Muqaddar	3,200,000	8
Homicide Mubarak	3,100,000	9
Amar Singh Chamkila	2,400,000	10
Bhakshak	2,400,000	11
Raat Akeli Hai The Bansal Murders	2,300,000	12

Shifting to Japan, we’ve had a really gradual begin for 10DANCE, the brand new LGBTQ+ romance dance film launched on a Thursday. In comparison with different Asian releases on a Thursday, you’ll be able to see it additionally ranks on the backside of the pack.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
The Shadow Strays	10,600,000	1
Demon Metropolis	9,600,000	2
Zom 100: Bucket Checklist of the Useless	8,200,000	3
The Massive 4	6,900,000	4
The Entire Reality	5,700,000	5
Metropolis Hunter	5,300,000	6
10DANCE	2,600,000	7

8. Homicide in Monaco Additionally Debuts Low

Sadly, one other low debut to report right here with the brand new true-crime documentary characteristic from the UK overlaying billionaire banker Edmond Safra, who was discovered lifeless in his penthouse, and the puzzling circumstances surrounding this rich financier’s homicide. With solely 6.3M views in its opening week, it compares in in the direction of the underside alongside different doc debuts on a Wednesday:

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
The Tinder Swindler	24,100,000	1
What Jennifer Did	18,000,000	2
Titan: The Oceangate Submersible Catastrophe	17,400,000	3
Woman within the Image	16,500,000	4
Our Father	14,800,000	5
Jailbreak: Love on the Run	7,600,000	6
Candy Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare	7,000,000	7
Homicide in Monaco	6,300,000	8
The best way to Rob A Financial institution	3,100,000	9

That’s it for this week – I’ll be again subsequent Tuesday with one other prime 10 report, and I’ll even be releasing a bunch of end-of-year protection! Tell us what essentially the most fascinating story was for you on this week’s prime 10s within the feedback down under.

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