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It’s time for an additional high 10 report diving into all the highest 40 figures Netflix simply dropped for the week ending December 14th—truthfully, not many good tales this week, with many titles underperforming expectations. Man vs Child is among the solely exceptions.
As all the time, let’s start with the weekly rankings relationship again to mid-2023. The previous couple of weeks have been the perfect within the high 10s for English TV since these data started, so will it proceed that streak?
- English TV – 80,800,000 (Rank 6 of 130 weeks)
- English Movie – 83,300,000 (Rank 42 of 130 weeks)
- Non-English TV – 30,900,000 (Rank 45 of 130 weeks)
- Non-English Movie – 22,100,000 (Rank 113 of 130 weeks)
Now, let’s get into the massive tales:
1. Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller debuts under Glass Onion
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One of many yr’s largest heavy hitters simply dropped, and it’s obtained a lukewarm reception to date, though the critiques are very good.
The third Knives Out instalment, coming two years after Glass Onion, debuted to 49.2M hours watched on Netflix globally, equating to 20.2M views in its first three days (Friday to Sunday). Glass Onion notably debuted a lot larger, albeit it was launched on December twenty third, 2023, on a Saturday, doubtless giving it a vacation enhance. It debuted with 35M views.
The place does that efficiency stack up towards different 2025 film premieres? Roughly center of the pack, with it coming in slightly below The Girl in Cabin 10 and simply above La Dolce Villa. Netflix may’ve hoped for a bit extra out of this one, however we’ll see the way it tracks within the weeks to return. Did everybody heed Rian Johnson’s recommendation and truly watch within the cinemas? What would this have gotten if it hadn’t premiered in restricted theaters?
2. Man vs Child
Man Vs Child. (L to R) Child Jesus, Rowan Atkinson as Trevor Bingley, in Man Vs Child. Cr. Courtesy of Ana Blumenkron/Netflix © 2025
Rowan Atkinson was again in a smaller restricted collection bundle with a Christmas spin on it, and that’s paid dividends with a debut of 19.1M views. That, consider it or not, places it up amongst the perfect performers for brand new collection debuts of the yr for Netflix, albeit that smaller 4-episode runtime aids it. Let’s stack it up towards another premieres in 2025, plus another British titles from the previous few years.
How about in comparison with Man vs Bee? Nicely, you possibly can’t do an actual 1:1 comparability right here, provided that Child was launched on a Thursday and Bee was launched on a Friday (which means Child has had an additional day), however right here’s how the chart seems to be up to now in comparison with the 9.7M views Bee picked up again in June 2022.
3. The Abandons Season 2 In Cancelation Territory
Final week, we famous how The Abandons, the troubled Western collection bought off to a gradual begin within the high 10s and whereas it did see a slight rise in its first full week on Netflix of round 4%, the present continues to be lagging behind lots of its renewed counterparts and swimming proper amongst a number of the cancelations for 2025 together with The Residence, Boots, and PULSE.
4. Sean Combs: The Reckoning is certainly one of Netflix’s largest documentaries ever
The documentary collection on P. Diddy has been doing nicely for Netflix, maybe expectedly, and the following authorized drama and press mudslinging have solely bolstered its place. The collection was already the most important (by fairly some margin) docu-series launched on a Tuesday, and it seems to be like it might grow to be one of many most-watched in Netflix’s historical past. As of week 2, the docuseries shouldn’t be sitting at 164M hours watched and 39.7M views. Sadly, the one we actually need to examine towards is The Tiger King, however that dropped earlier than these weekly charts grew to become accessible.
5. Report of Ragnarok Retains Rising
Anime is common. We knew that already, proper? However Report of Ragnarok continues to ship robust performances season over season, with season 3 debuting with the biggest variety of views in its opening days on Netflix up to now albeit should you take into account season 2 debuted a day earlier, it’s in all probability about on par if not a bit bit decrease.
6. The Accident’s First Season Reputation Might Have Been An Accident
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Solid your thoughts again to final Summer time, and this little Mexican collection grew to become one of many largest worldwide exhibits of the yr, thanks partially to its absurd plot, which gained traction on social media. Sadly, the identical can’t be stated about season 2, which, even with an additional day and fewer episodes working in its favor, debuted to over half the viewership. It’s a disgrace, particularly since I query why they didn’t run a advertising and marketing marketing campaign for this in any respect, leaning into the absurdity and virality of seasons 1 and up, and upping the ante. Missed alternative.
7. Blood Coast Additionally Sees Slashing of Over Half the Viewership
Blood Coast can be again two years later, with season 2 dropping final Tuesday (season 1 notably launched on a Wednesday, so it had much less time to select up views), however that hasn’t stopped viewership from falling off right here both: season 2 debuted to 2.1M views, in comparison with 5.6M for season 1.
8. Metropolis of Shadows
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Netflix Spain had a significant new launch final week for the vacations: Metropolis of Shadows. It debuted with 2.8M views, placing it across the center of the pack in comparison with different Spanish premieres in recent times.
Different Callouts
The Netflix Christmas 2025 Rom-Com Battle
Netflix had 4 main new rom-coms for the vacation season, and it seems to be like the most important hit was saved till final. Whereas My Secret Santa trailed Champagne Issues within the opening first week, the Alexandra Breckenridge vacation film is shortly catching up, with solely 600K views between the 2 as of week 2.
Stranger Issues S5
Final week, we bought some pushback on our chart on Stranger Issues evaluating hours between seasons 4 and 5 as a result of they’re not like-for-like comparisons. Whereas that’s true to an extent, season 4 launched with seven episodes in comparison with season 5, which launched with 4. We don’t actually have many different apt methods to make comparisons season over season till round April 2026, when the 91-day stat might be finalized. Till then, right here’s how the hourly chart is shaping up with season 5 seeing a 52% drop once more this week.
Frederic of Netflix and Chiffres has additionally been doing direct views comparisons towards the break up seasons of Bridgerton and Wednesday, too (albeit all of them debuted at totally different instances), and right here’s how that’s trying as of week 3:
Troll 2 vs Troll 1
Final week, we famous that Troll 2 had debuted a bit decrease than its first film, however it was nonetheless a reasonably robust debut. Issues can’t be stated the identical concerning the second week, with a 73% drop in viewing hours this week, which means because it at the moment stands, it’s trailing under AKA, which occupies the tenth spot on Netflix’s all-time most-watched checklist.
The KPop Demon Hunters chart 26 weeks in.
Week after week, KPop Demon Hunters carry on chugging within the Netflix high 10s. It’s now as much as its twenty sixth week straight within the weekly high 10s, with its whole hour rely at 827.9M and its views near half a billion at 496.4M. It’s by no means seen a drop above 20% in viewing hours since its debut, with essentially the most vital drop being 17% final week. It’s additionally by no means been decrease than the highest 5 on the weekly charts both and whereas it’s positively tailing off. Simply have a look at this bloody chart. Will we ever see something prefer it once more?
That’s all for this week – tell us what you’ve been watching within the feedback under.
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