Bad Thoughts. Tom Segura in season 1 of Bad Thoughts. Cr. Shaun Nix/Netflix © 2025
Welcome alongside to a different large breakdown of the Netflix prime 10s! It’s been a tough week for the brand new Netflix US collection, with all three premieres vastly underperforming in opposition to expectations. Issues are trying a lot rosier on the worldwide slate, notably on the documentary slate. Listed here are all the most important tales from the Netflix prime 10s.
Notice: On this report of Netflix’s hours seen from Might twelfth, 2025 to Might 18th, 2025, we’ll use “Full Viewings Equal,” or CVE, expressed in thousands and thousands. Meaning we divide the hours seen introduced by Netflix by the runtime of movies or collection. It permits for higher comparisons between movies and collection, nevertheless it’s not an viewers metric. It’s the minimal variety of viewings in the event that they had been all full from the primary second to the final of the movie or season.
1. Love, Death & Robots on the verge of important failure.
The animated anthology collection 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 rather a lot.
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 collection, 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 collection. Its launch was glorious, with 12.6M CVEs in its first 5 days—properly forward of the episodes targeted 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 eventually, a brand new “A British Horror Story” dropped, targeted on Fred & Rose West, who now be part of Jimmy Savile on this assortment (not precisely a collection 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 collection facet.
I’m undecided Netflix had excessive hopes for Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts, however in its first 6 days, it carried out properly under the launches of the European collection The Breakthrough and The Glass Dome this 12 months. It’s a mini-collection, so there’s no actual stakes right here, nevertheless it’s positively not the place the following I Suppose You Ought to Depart will come from.
One collection that possible received’t be getting one other season is Wager, 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 collection since June 2021. Until it had been a part of an preliminary two-season order, I’d guess (sorry) that Wager might 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-collection Secrets and techniques We Hold didn’t show me fallacious, pulling off the second-greatest launch for a European mini-collection launched on a Thursday, behind La Palma however forward of Expensive Baby, 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. Properly completed, Netflix Denmark.
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5. Rotten Legacy won’t have any legacy.
It’ll be a harder street for the Spanish collection 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 collection launches. Its destiny now is determined by the way it performs within the coming days, however issues aren’t trying promising.
6. Franklin is shifting quick.
From Lebanon, the collection 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. Primarily based on comparisons in my dataset, it appears more likely to be renewed.
That’s all for this week, be happy to tell us what you suppose within the feedback under.