The Perfect Neighbor Breaks Netflix Record as The Diplomat S3 Slips and The Twits Struggle

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Welcome back to another top 10 report, where we’re covering the biggest stories from the viewership numbers for the week of October 13th to October 19th, 2025. Lots to cover with several debuts, which include a few disappointments such as The Twits, The Diplomat S3, and She Walks In Darkness. We’re also doing check-ins on Boots, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Alice in Borderland S3, and House of Guinness. 

Before we dig into it, a couple of omissions, and they’re both sports. Starting 5 came back last Thursday with season 2, and once again failed to rank in the weekly top 10s. Worse still, the series actually didn’t feature in any country’s daily top 10s either. Season 1, for comparison, featured in the US top 10s for 8 days and 18 other regions. A no-show for Six Kings Slam, the live tennis event, too, albeit it did get into the daily top 10s in 49 countries. Not a great week for sports. 

Another big omission is Turn of the Tide, the returning Portuguese series that’s already been renewed for a third season…

Finally, we should also note that Wednesday season 2 has jumped another place in the all-time top 10, now ranking fifth. It’s still got until December to pick up views, so our estimate of it being around #4 when all is said and done is pretty much spot-on. 

As always, let’s begin with the weekly rankings:

• English TV: 42,700,000 (Rank 76 of 122 weeks)
• English Film: 92,100,000 (Rank 24 of 122 weeks)
• Non-English TV: 31,100,000 (Rank 38 of 122 weeks)
• Non-English Film: 39,700,000 (Rank 42 of 122 weeks)

Full Top 10 Data for October 13th to October 19th

English TV

Rank
Title
Hours
Views
Week #

1
Monster: The Ed Gein Story: Season 1
70,500,000
9,500,000 (-54.11%)
3

2
Boots: Season 1
55,200,000
9,400,000 (100.00%)
2

3
The Diplomat: Season 3
31,400,000
4,800,000
1

4
Victoria Beckham: Limited Series
9,300,000
3,800,000 (-32.14%)
2

5
Wayward: Limited Series
18,900,000
3,200,000 (-41.82%)
4

6
Is It Cake? Halloween: Season 1
7,600,000
2,900,000 (-49.12%)
2

7
Love Is Blind: Season 9
30,700,000
2,700,000 (-34.15%)
3

8
Raw: October 13, 2025
4,600,000
2,400,000 (0.00%)
1

9
House of Guinness: Season 1
14,700,000
2,100,000 (-38.24%)
4

10
Wednesday: Season 2
14,400,000
1,900,000 (-17.39%)
11

English Film 

Rank
Title
Hours
Views
Week #

1
The Woman in Cabin 10
47,700,000
30,100,000 (41.98%)
2

2
The Perfect Neighbor
27,500,000
16,700,000
1

3
KPop Demon Hunters
27,000,000
16,200,000 (-8.99%)
18

4
My Father, the BTK Killer
10,100,000
6,400,000
2

5
The Twits
10,200,000
5,900,000
1

6
Vacation
7,100,000
4,300,000
1

7
Despicable Me 3
5,400,000
3,600,000 (-18.18%)
11

8
The Secret Life of Pets 2
4,600,000
3,200,000
10

9
Taken in Plain Sight
4,200,000
2,900,000
1

10
The Maze Runner
5,200,000
2,800,000 (-26.32%)
4

Non-English TV

Rank
Title
Hours
Views
Week #

1
No One Saw Us Leave: Season 1
33,000,000
8,000,000
1

2
Old Money: Season 1
32,800,000
5,800,000 (48.72%)
2

3
Genie, Make a Wish: Season 1
44,100,000
3,400,000 (-57.50%)
3

4
Néro the Assassin: Season 1
23,000,000
3,300,000 (-26.67%)
2

5
Typhoon Family: Limited Series
11,300,000
2,300,000
1

6
Romantics Anonymous: Season 1
13,500,000
2,100,000
1

7
Alice in Borderland: Season 3
11,900,000
1,800,000 (-41.94%)
4

8
Old Dog, New Tricks: Season 1
6,700,000
1,600,000 (-69.23%)
3

9
Bon Appétit, Your Majesty: Limited Series
22,800,000
1,500,000 (-31.82%)
9

10
The Guest: Season 1
18,900,000
1,300,000 (-31.58%)
4

Non-English Film

Rank
Title
Hours
Views
Week #

1
Caramelo
25,200,000
15,000,000 (-13.29%)
2

2
Inside Furioza
19,900,000
7,100,000
1

3
War 2
10,200,000
3,500,000 (2.94%)
2

4
She Walks in Darkness
4,900,000
2,700,000
1

5
27 Nights
4,000,000
2,200,000
1

6
Swim to Me
3,700,000
2,200,000 (10.00%)
2

7
A Woman with No Filter
2,900,000
1,900,000
1

8
Furioza
4,300,000
1,800,000
5

9
Good News
3,900,000
1,700,000
1

10
Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead
3,500,000
1,600,000
1

1. The Diplomat is back, but did it bounce back?

Season 3 of The Diplomat debuted last week and is proving that you can still lose audience even if you return with new episodes on an annual basis. It experienced a 14% drop on the season 2 premiere and a 43% drop on the season 1 premiere. 

Of course, the series has already been renewed for a fourth season, with production due to get underway relatively soon, according to our latest intel. Could these numbers point to season 4 wrapping things up? We’ll get to find out soon enough, but this is an incredibly awards-friendly series and continues to score excellent reviews. Don’t count it out just yet.  

Netflix Viewership Data – 1 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (1 weeks)
Rank

The Diplomat – Season 1
8,500,000
1

The Diplomat – Season 2
5,600,000
2

The Diplomat – Season 3
4,800,000
3

2. The Twits

It was always going to be big boots to fill following the summer that’s been dominated by KPop Demon Hunters to live up to expectations. Still, The Twits put in a relatively low debut compared to other animated debuts in recent years, with just 5.9M views in its opening 3 days. It might not have helped that reviews have been middling (including our own), but fingers crossed this sees a bump in the weeks to come. 

Netflix Viewership Data – 1 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (1 weeks)
Rank

The Sea Beast
16,900,000
1

Plankton: The Movie
14,300,000
2

My Little Pony: A New Generation
10,200,000
3

Back to the Outback
10,100,000
4

Orion and the Dark
10,000,000
5

KPop Demon Hunters
9,200,000
6

Spellbound
8,500,000
7

The Monkey King
8,100,000
8

The Magician’s Elephant
8,000,000
9

Thelma The Unicorn
7,300,000
10

The Twits
5,900,000
11

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
4,900,000
12

Ultraman: Rising
4,400,000
13

Nimona
3,200,000
14

3. Monster: The Ed Gein Story Check-In – It’s Falling Behind! 

Picture: Netflix

It’s now been three weeks since Monster season 3 debuted, and we’ve been closely tracking how well it’s performing against prior Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan entries. It saw a 54% drop in viewing hours in week 3, bringing its total view count to 42.4 M. 

With prior caveats that each of these shows was released on different days, Ed Gein is now falling behind The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Was Netflix’s hands-off approach to promoting this one the reason why it’s lagging, or were people unable to stomach the rather grim depiction? We’ll leave that to you. 

4. The Perfect Neighbor Puts In A Barn-Storming First Weekend

Traditionally, we’ve seen big feature documentaries released on a Wednesday but that seems to have shifted this year and it’s paying off… The Perfect Neighbor, which has been touring film festivals over the past few months following its Sundance Film Festival premiere, put in an incredible performance in week 1, clocking in 16.7M views. By our estimate, that’s the best launch for any documentary on a Friday in Netflix’s history. 

Netflix Viewership Data – 1 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (1 weeks)
Rank

The Perfect Neighbor
16,700,000
1

A Deadly American Marriage
9,800,000
2

Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
8,600,000
3

Einstein and the Bomb
8,500,000
4

My Father The BTK Killer
5,700,000
5

The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
5,400,000
6

Sly
4,700,000
7

Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror
4,400,000
8

Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut
4,400,000
9

5. Boots in week 2

Will Boots come back for season 2? That’s the big question we have here, and we’re still 50/50. It scored a glowing endorsement from the US Government, but viewership figures still have it around the middle of the pack of recent English TV premieres. Gun to our head, we’d predict a renewal for this one if it falls into Netflix’s comedy bucket and scores some leeway thanks to positive reviews and a subject matter that’s a bit more niche than some of the bigger shows that got canceled this year, such as The Waterfront and Pulse. 

Netflix Viewership Data – 2 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (2 weeks)
Rank

3 Body Problem
26,600,000
1

Black Doves
25,400,000
2

Hostage
22,400,000
3

My Life with the Walter Boys – Season 1
20,300,000
4

The Waterfront
19,900,000
5

All The Light We Cannot See
19,900,000
6

Beef – Season 1
17,800,000
7

Ransom Canyon
16,600,000
8

One Day
15,200,000
9

Pulse
15,000,000
10

Dept. Q – Season 1
14,900,000
11

Boots
14,100,000
12

A Man on the Inside
13,900,000
13

Black Rabbit
13,600,000
14

Bodies
13,200,000
15

Territory
12,700,000
16

House of Guinness
11,600,000
17

No Good Deed
11,600,000
18

The Brothers Sun
11,000,000
19

Forever
10,400,000
20

Toxic Town
9,500,000
21

KAOS
9,300,000
22

Dead Boy Detectives
7,800,000
23

Boy Swallows Universe
7,600,000
24

Bet
7,400,000
25

Bodkin
7,300,000
26

Leanne – Season 1
5,500,000
27

Ripley
4,800,000
28

6. She Walks in Darkness Debuts at #4 on the Non-English Chart

Picture Credit: Netflix

It was a rough start for She Walks in Darkness, which has one of the weakest debuts for a Spanish-language movie released on a Friday in quite some time. Given J.A. Boyena’s involvement and its recent theatrical release in Spain, plus festival coverage, hopes would’ve been much higher. 

Netflix Viewership Data – 1 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (1 weeks)
Rank

Nowhere
23,800,000
1

The Platform 2
19,400,000
2

Through My Window
17,500,000
3

Bird Box Barcelona
16,300,000
4

A Widow’s Game
15,400,000
5

Through My Window 3: Looking at You
13,800,000
6

Infiesto
7,800,000
7

Love at First Kiss
6,800,000
8

She Walks in Darkness
2,700,000
9

7. No One Saw Us Leave

Netflix in Latin America had a much better week with No One Saw Us Leave debuting at the #1 spot on the Non-English TV spot, picking up 8M views. That places it among the most-watched Wednesday series debuts in the region, albeit behind The Eternaut, The Accident, and Caught.

Netflix Viewership Data – 1 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (1 weeks)
Rank

The Eternaut
10,800,000
1

The Accident
10,400,000
2

Caught
8,200,000
3

No One Saw Us Leave
8,000,000
4

Prison Cell 211
5,300,000
5

Unspeakable Sins
5,100,000
6

The Dead Girls
3,900,000
7

One Hundred Years of Solitude
3,600,000
8

The Guest
2,700,000
9

We Were Kings
1,300,000
10

8. Old Money Has a Big Rise in Week 2

We didn’t highlight it last week, but the Turkish drama series Old Money saw viewing hours rise by nearly 50% this week. That makes it a huge debut for a Turkish show, and given that fact that it’s broken out in 76 regions, we’d bet a lot that this gets a second season. 

Netflix Viewership Data – 2 Week Analysis

Title
Cumulative Views (2 weeks)
Rank

Old Money
9,700,000
1

Shahmaran – Season 1
7,400,000
2

As the Crow Flies – Season 1
4,200,000
3

Creature
3,300,000
4

Shahmaran – Season 2
2,500,000
5

10. Alice in Borderland and House of Guinness Check-Ins

A few more check-ins to round us out! Alice in Borderland S3 is still ranking in the non-English TV series top 10, although it’s now fallen quite behind season 2. Given the ending, this is very much expected to get a season 4 renewal order of some description. 

House of Guinness is much harder to see a future for… Now in week 4, the show is lagging behind most of its British counterparts, and given that it looks like a costly series, it’s hard to see it getting a renewal despite a cliffhanger ending. Fingers crossed we’re wrong, but it’s tracking awfully close to KAOS… 

Those are our picks of the biggest stories from the top 10s this week – what are your biggest takeaways this week? Let us know in the comments.