Bad Thoughts. Tom Segura in season 1 of Bad Thoughts. Cr. Shaun Nix/Netflix © 2025
Welcome alongside to a different huge breakdown of the Netflix prime 10s! It’s been a tough week for the brand new Netflix US sequence, with all three premieres vastly underperforming towards expectations. Issues are trying a lot rosier on the worldwide slate, notably on the documentary slate. Listed here are all the largest tales from the Netflix prime 10s.
Be aware: On this report of Netflix’s hours considered from Might twelfth, 2025 to Might 18th, 2025, we’ll use “Full Viewings Equal,” or CVE, expressed in hundreds of thousands. Which means we divide the hours considered introduced by Netflix by the runtime of movies or sequence. It permits for higher comparisons between movies and sequence, nevertheless it’s not an viewers metric. It’s the minimal variety of viewings in the event that they have been all full from the primary second to the final of the movie or season.
1. Love, Death & Robots on the verge of essential failure.
The animated anthology sequence Love, Death & Robots returned final week for its fourth season. Regardless of the presence of David Fincher among the many administrators of the brand new episodes, this season’s launch was considerably weaker than that of Season 3, with a drop of round 50%. That’s so much.
2. The week of “serialized anthology docs”
Final week, Netflix launched new installments in three of its “doc collections,” beginning with a brand new episode within the Untold documentary sequence, which focuses on tales associated to sports activities. The Liver King has an eye fixed-catching title, which helped it enter the Top 10 this week, however with solely 5M CVEs, it’s acting at a mean degree.
There was additionally American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden, which is now the third documentary within the American Manhunt sequence. Its launch was glorious, with 12.6M CVEs in its first 5 days—effectively forward of the episodes centered on the Boston bombing and O.J. Simpson. No matter cause for the delay from its preliminary launch earlier this 12 months paid off.
And at last, a brand new “A British Horror Story” dropped, centered on Fred & Rose West, who now be part of Jimmy Savile on this assortment (not precisely a sequence one would wish to be a part of). Right here, too, the newest installment had a stronger launch, with 8.3M CVEs in its first 5 days.
3. Two further flops for Netflix US on the sequence aspect.
I’m undecided Netflix had excessive hopes for Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts, however in its first 6 days, it carried out effectively under the launches of the European sequence The Breakthrough and The Glass Dome this 12 months. It’s a mini-sequence, so there’s no actual stakes right here, nevertheless it’s positively not the place the subsequent I Assume You Ought to Go away will come from.
One sequence that doubtless gained’t be getting one other season is Guess, tailored from a Japanese manga and created by the showrunner of Warrior Nun. With simply 2.4M CVEs in its first 4 days, it’s one of many weakest launches for a brand new U.S. Netflix sequence since June 2021. Until it have been a part of an preliminary two-season order, I’d wager (sorry) that Guess can be cancelled.
4. Secrets and techniques We Hold is now not secret
I took a small gamble on it final week, and the Danish mini-sequence Secrets and techniques We Hold didn’t show me fallacious, pulling off the second-greatest launch for a European mini-sequence launched on a Thursday, behind La Palma however forward of Expensive Little one, each of which ended up within the all-time Top 10. It’s far too early to foretell an analogous trajectory, nevertheless it’s already a wonderful begin. Nicely achieved, Netflix Denmark.
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5. Rotten Legacy may not have any legacy.
It’ll be a harder highway for the Spanish sequence Rotten Legacy, which had a decidedly mediocre begin with 2.2M CVEs over its first three days, placing it close to the underside of the rankings for brand spanking new Spanish sequence launches. Its destiny now will depend on the way it performs within the coming days, however issues aren’t trying promising.
6. Franklin is transferring quick.
From Lebanon, the sequence Franklin (no relation to the turtle) has already pulled off the spectacular feat of breaking into the Top 10 in its launch week, with 2M EVCs over its first 4 days. Based mostly on comparisons in my dataset, it seems to be more likely to be renewed.
That’s all for this week, be happy to tell us what you assume within the feedback under.
