With Love, Meghan (left) and Plankton The Movie (proper) – Pictures: Netflix
Welcome to one of many largest Top 10 stories in our historical past, and the explanation for that’s easy: it’s been a really busy week within the Top 10s, and there’s a lot of information to cowl. Here are the largest tales from Netflix’s high 10 hourly figures drop for the week ending March ninth, 2025.
Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours seen from March third, 2025, to March ninth, 2025, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or CVE, expressed in hundreds of thousands. That means we divide the hours seen 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 is the minimal variety of viewings in the event that they have been all accomplished from the primary second to the final of the movie or season.
1. The Recruit is canceled and that’s completely regular.
Some have blamed the cancelation of The Recruit after two seasons on its poor launch date, the algorithm, or the shortage of promotion from Netflix, however the truth is that the sequence was in all probability doomed as quickly as its renewal was greenlit. Per the showrunner himself in a Deadline piece that reads conspicuously like a salvage operation from the present’s producers, he recollects that the completion fee for season 1 was not good firstly earlier than getting slightly bit higher. The extra your completion fee is low, the much less viewers you’ll be able to rely on for future seasons, and that’s what in the end killed The Recruit as its second season simply didn’t handle to get that many viewers from season 1 fascinated about its story.
The unhappy half is that from its late renewal to its lackluster completion fee and the lowered order of episodes for the second season, season 2 of The Recruit was in all probability doomed from the beginning however that’s additionally in all probability why Netflix launched it the week after The Night Agent, as a result of it might have been the miracle saving it.
Think about it: individuals would have binged the second season of The Night Agent in per week, wanting extra spy sequence, and lo and behold, The Recruit would have been there, simply across the nook. Rather than hurting it, there may need been on Netflix half the want to tie The Recruit to The Night Agent and assist it keep away from what they suspected could be a bomb. It didn’t work as a result of the 2 sequence have been too far aside tonally, however that’s one other mind-set concerning the launch date.
2. Plankton: The Movie
Plankton: The Movie, an animated movie spin-off of SpongeBob SquarePants, has achieved an surprising success, rating because the second-best launch for an animated movie launched on Netflix on a Friday since June 2021, with 14.3M CVEs in three days.
I shouldn’t be stunned as the newest one, Saving Bikini Bottom, additionally carried out fairly properly, indicating that there’s nonetheless a strong viewers for SpongeBob SquarePants films on Netflix—movies that the platform eagerly acquires from Paramount.
3. Chaos: The Manson Murders
The newest documentary from Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (who gained his Oscar over 20 years in the past) about Charles Manson and his murders had a good launch with 5M CVEs in three days, making it the fourth-best debut for a documentary launched on a Friday. However, given the subject material, I might have anticipated far more.
4. Delicious (not)
The German movie Delicious (set in France) has had a really mediocre begin. It did not entice Netflix subscribers, and the movie is reportedly fairly unremarkable, so it’s prone to drop off within the coming weeks.
5. Nadaaniyan
In India, the romantic comedy Nadaaniyan additionally had a mid-tier launch with 3.9M EVCs in three days. Unremarkable too.
6. Anitta
Anitta is a significant star in Latin America (and certain past), however Netflix’s newest program about her hasn’t been a giant success, with the Brazilian documentary Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta drawing only one.5M CVEs.
7. With Love, Meghan
Since we’re with reference to world stars having lackluster debuts on Netflix, let’s discuss concerning the new present from Duchess Meghan, With Love, Meghan, which had a really modest launch, with solely 2.6M CVEs in six days (doubtless its peak). This is even lower than one other life-style present, How to Get Rich, which aimed to show viewers the right way to obtain wealth.
The present has been “renewed” for a second season, however not due to its viewership. Season 2 was already filmed and had been ordered straight. However, it appears fairly clear that there gained’t be a 3rd season.
8. Just One Look
The Harlan Coben model isn’t all the time a assured success on Netflix, particularly with worldwide diversifications, and this week, it’s the Polish sequence Just One Look that confronted this problem. It had a good however not distinctive launch, with 4.5M CVEs in 5 days. It’s higher than the current Polish sequence in order that it may need had a slight edge in that regard.
9. Medusa
Colombia has been a supplier of surefire hits over the previous years, and it continues with the sequence Medusa, which had a robust launch with 6.8M CVEs in its first 5 days, marking the second-best debut for a Colombian sequence. Colombia is doing rather well in exporting its works globally (or the native viewers is totally engaged). Since it’s not a miniseries, it might positively be renewed with these numbers.
10. The Leopard
Here’s an instance of a sequence closely promoted by Netflix, because the Italian costume miniseries The Leopard was the topic of a number of articles and press releases all through its manufacturing earlier than its launch final week. Of course, if Netflix is selling it externally, it should be successful, proper? Well, not likely, because the sequence had a reasonably mediocre launch with solely 3.4M CVEs in its first 5 days. As all the time, repeat with me the sacred mantras: exterior promotion doesn’t matter, and subscribers will watch what they wish to watch.
11. F1: Drive to Survive
As anticipated, the brand new season of Formula 1: Drive to Survive had a weaker launch than the earlier season, which had a decrease debut than earlier than, and so forth. The peak of this F1 documentary sequence is now far behind, and its finish appears to be nearing. Drive to outlive? More like “try to survive!”.
12. Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black
It’s unattainable to investigate the numbers for the return of Beauty in Black as a result of Netflix’s methodology combines the brand new episodes with these from Season 1A and stories them as a single determine. The sequence has already been renewed for a second season, in order that they should be proud of its efficiency.
That’s all for this week. Feel free to tell us what you assume within the feedback under.