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Welcome back to another top 10 report looking back at last week’s top 10 numbers and looking at what did well, what did average, and what flopped.
This week, we should note that Netflix had its weakest viewership of English films since June 2023, with only 39.80 million views of the collective top 10. How do we know it’s ranked last? One of our new tools, of course! We’ve just put live a top 10 weekly rank list that’ll auto-update every week. You can find more of our top 10 tools via our Most Popular on Netflix hub page.
Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours viewed from April 14th, 2025 to April 20th, 2025, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or CVE, expressed in millions. That means we divide the hours viewed announced by Netflix by the runtime of films or series. It allows for better comparisons between films and series, but it’s not an audience metric. It is the minimum number of viewings if they were all complete from the first second to the last of the film or season.
1. The Glass Dome
The Swedish limited series The Glass Dome isn’t anything special—it’s classic, by-the-numbers Scandinoir—but its debut is excellent, with 9.2M CVEs in its first six days. Sweden now holds the top two spots for the best launches of international series released on a Tuesday, and both came out in 2025!
2. Ransom Canyon
Ransom Canyon, Netflix’s new Yellowstone-meets-Virgin River series, premiered last week, and its first four days are promising, though not outstanding. With 7.2M CVEs, it lands in the middle of the rankings, without firmly securing a spot in the renewal-safe green zone.
We’ll have to wait and see what Netflix decides for Pulse, The Residence, and No Good Deed before we can get a clearer picture of the streamer’s mindset regarding series that launch with around 6.5–7.2M EVCs. That’ll help refine predictions going forward. Personally, I’d lean toward a cautious renewal.
3. Pulse
Speaking of Pulse, whether it will keep beating for a second season after its first 14 days remains uncertain—its prognosis is still critical. The series is stuck between other cancelled shows and, more importantly, sits very close to The Residence, which we’ve heard nothing about. Netflix could pivot The Residence to a limited series and then renew Pulse, but I don’t see the streamer saving both.
4. iHostage
One title with a solid launch is the Dutch film iHostage, which pulled in 15.1M CVEs over its first three days—making it the 10th best debut for a European non-English-language film released on a Friday. That’s definitely going to boost the Netherlands’ standing in my ranking of countries delivering hits to Netflix.
5. Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror
Friday documentary releases are becoming less and less rare on Netflix, but Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror didn’t take advantage of the quiet release schedule to make a strong debut, landing at just 4.4M EVCs in its first three days. To be fair, the subject is very U.S.-centric and likely not all that exportable.
6. Project UFO
Now that’s what you call a flop. The Polish limited series Project UFO had a really poor launch, with just 1.1M EVCs over its first five days—the worst debut for a new Polish series, based on my estimates. Let’s add alien-themed content to genres that just don’t resonate with Netflix audiences.
7. The Diamond Heist
And we wrap up with another minor flop: the British docuseries The Diamond Heist opened with a modest 3.1M EVCs over its first five days. No audience robbery here, it seems. The sparkle didn’t quite translate to viewership—more cubic zirconia than crown jewel.
That’s it for this week; see you next week! Also if you missed my report on Monday, we did a deep-dive into the best Sony Pictures movies from the past few years.
Rating: TV-MA
