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The company updates its weekly "Top 10 on Netflix" every Tuesday, based on hours viewed from Monday through Sunday the previous week for original and licensed titles. Netflix's rankings are broken down into top 10 charts for films in English, TV in English, films in non-English languages and TV in non-English languages.
A ranking of all-time most watched titles also lives on the site, detailing shows that have the most viewing hours in their first 28 days of release. Netflix also has these split into films in English, TV in English, films in non-English languages and TV in non-English languages -- but for our charts below, we don't differentiate between languages.
If a new season releases its episodes in two parts on different dates, Netflix counts the watch time of the first volume's episodes for their first 28 days, then it counts the watch time of the second volume's episodes for their first 28 days. These all-time rankings are also updated every Tuesday, whenever any programs make it into the charts during the week prior.
Shows and movies need sustained popularity in many countries to crack into the all-time most watched charts. That means you can see titles with "Top 10" badges in Netflix's app for days, but they still may not be generating enough hours of viewing to make the all-time rankings.
For example, the first half of You's fourth season came out Feb. 9. The show, a popular psychological thriller about a serial killer, generated 183.9 million hours of viewing since then. And each subsequent season of the show has grown in popularity. But because this season is being released in two parts and the second half of the fourth season won't be released March 9, the final tally for You's full viewership won't be clear until early April.
Meanwhile, teen mystery hit Outer Banks returned on Thursday with its third season and racked up 155 million watch hours in just four days. And true-crime limited series Murdaugh Murders and British horror-thriller film The Strays, both released Wednesday, have been building search interest on Google.
But TV shows need to eclipse half a billion hours to make it onto the all-time list, and films need more than 200 million. Even the most popular shows and movies need multiple weeks and enduring attention to accumulate enough.
The following are Netflix's most watched series, based on Netflix's own reporting of total hours viewed in the first 28 days of each title's release. Again, if a new season releases its episodes in two volumes on different dates, Netflix counts the watch time of the first volume's episodes for their first 28 days, then it counts the watch time of the second volume's episodes for their first 28 days.
Netflix appears to have never released a non-English-language film that generated enough viewing hours to make it into an overall top-watched ranking. But additional widely watched non-English language movies on Netflix have included:
Scrolling through Netflix and feeling overwhelmed by options? Look, you work hard. Let us make this easy. Whether you're seeking a new season to binge-watch, a new show to obsess over, or a bit of TV to soothe your mind after a long day, we've got you covered.
2023 has been a fantastic year for streaming television. And a ton of terrific series are now streaming on Netflix. Want some blood-curdling horror? How about heart-wrenching drama? Fluffy teen rom-coms? Maybe winsome cartoons? There's something for everyone in the wonderful world of streaming!
Seasons 1 and 2 saw Hilda adjusting to a move from the country to the city, making new friends and learning about the dangers of trolls. Season 3 holds more charming adventures, as well as a deep dive into mysterious figures from her family's past. There's also a Hilda movie, Hilda and the Mountain King, in which Hilda temporarily becomes a troll herself!
Based on the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See is a sweeping WWII epic. In Nazi-occupied France, Marie-Laure is a blind French teen who begins illegally broadcasting coded messages for the French Resistance over the radio. Her broadcasts catch the attention of Werner, a teenage radio operator in the German forces, but he chooses not to turn her in.
While the series occasionally struggles to live up to the depth and complexity of its source material, All the Light We Cannot See is still a tender and affecting watch, a coming-of-age tale nestled in a harrowing war story. Co-starring Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, the mini-series also made great strides for blind and low-vision representation by casting legally blind actors in the role of Marie-Laure. Nell Sutton plays Marie-Laure as a child, while Aria Mia Loberti portrays the character in her teen years.
Black Mirror is back, baby! Season 6 of the eerie sci-fi anthology series premiered in 2023, a full four years after season 5, with bigger twists and even bigger stars. Josh Hartnett, Salma Hayek Pinault, Aaron Paul, Annie Murphy, and Zazie Beetz all have a turn in the dystopian gauntlet, and not everyone emerges unscathed.
The Witcher is an exciting fantasy drama, full of magic, myth, and an ever-present sense of danger. The series really came into its own in Season 2, which explored its complex relationships with confidence. Season 3 is a fitting farewell to Cavill, who exited at the end of the season. But never fear, the series will continue in Season 4 with Liam Hemsworth in the titular role.
Season 4 sees its main characters in their final year of high school having to adjust to a new, crunchier reality: Their straight-laced school has been sold to an artsy education company, complete with sound baths, meditation, and an indoor slide.
This stylish and captivating drama is based on a remarkable true story. The Emergency Rescue Committee helped find safe passage for Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, and countless other dissenters wanted for the audacity of their ideas. Created by Anna Winger (Unorthodox) and Daniel Hendler, and adapted from Julie Orringer's original historical novel The Flight Portfolio, Transatlantic is an affecting and scenic mini-series with a sensational international cast.
One of Netflix's biggest hits of 2023, The Diplomat is a gripping political thriller with a dysfunctional marriage at its core. Keri Russell is Kate Wyler, a career diplomat who is unexpectedly appointed as the new U.S. ambassador to England after a British warship is attacked. Her husband (a magnetic Rufus Sewell) is a former ambassador with a splashy track record and an inability to keep his fingers out of the political pie. With the stakes growing higher each episode, the Wylers attempt to maintain peace, both globally and in their marriage.
If you prefer the fictional to real-life serial killers, then maybe the ludicrously soapy stalker stylings of Penn Badgley's Joe Goldberg aka Will Bettelheim aka Jonathan Moore are more your jam? Dragging the relationship thrillers of ye olde Lifetime Network into the modern age, this series, based on Caroline Kepnes's books, has seen our tender-eyed, gorgeous-coiffed bookshop owner with the penchant for most diabolical murder somehow live to kill another and yet another day.
Who's up for some sloppy steaks!!! Easily the best and the most absurd sketch show to date, I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is a comedy show for the modern era. It thrives on awkwardness and heightens our most low-stakes anxieties to the extreme. SNL alums Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin write every sketch, which range from unruly focus groups and derailed office meetings to a hot dog truck crashing into a dinner party and a guy who's really, really into his patterned shirts. Tim Robinson's characters are loud, bombastic, and radiating with an aching rawness that endears them to you despite the fact that they're making a scene.
No matter where you think these sketches are going, you're wrong. They're both sophisticated and dumb, simple and surprising. It's no wonder this highly popular show is a comedy-lovers' darling. It's truly one-of-a-kind.*
Love post-apocalyptic science fiction, but wish it could be a little bit cuter? Then Sweet Tooth is the show for you. At the same time that a pandemic wipes out a huge chunk of the population, human babies start randomly being born with various animal features (monkey tails, elephant trunks, you name it!). Humanity, unsurprisingly, does not respond well to these new hybrids, ostracizing and hunting them into hiding. Enter Gus (Christian Convery), a sweet little boy with deer antlers on a journey to find his mother, under the reluctant, begrudging care of Big Man (Nonso Anozie). Season 2 finds the duo separated and Gus in captivity with other adorable hybrid kids.
A fantastically hilarious British mockumentary, Cunk on Earth takes aim at all self-serious docu-series with aplomb. Diane Morgan plays Philomena Cunk, an ignorant and profoundly stupid host investigating humanity's history by interviewing various real-life experts, much like a British version of Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report character. Her deadpan delivery is perfect as she asks baffled academics hard-hitting questions, such as "Were the pyramids built from the top-down or down-up?" Likewise, her narrative asides about how things probably sucked before modern technology are both delightfully vapid and surprisingly relatable. She is the worst of us, and we love her for it. A critical darling for good reason, Cunk on Earth is a breath of fresh air, guaranteed to leave you giggling.
Pernille Larsen (Fanny Louise Bernth) is fresh out of nursing school and excited to start her career. She looks up to the nurse she's assigned to shadow, the cool and competent Christina Hansen (Josephine Park). But when patients start dying, Pernille begins to suspect her friend might not be the savior she first appeared to be. Based on a true story of a Danish health care worker who murdered patients, much like the New Jersey case which inspired the Netflix movie The Good Nurse, The Nurse is an excellent series that challenges preconceived expectations about what a serial killer looks and acts like.
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