Bad Thoughts. Tom Segura in season 1 of Bad Thoughts. Cr. Shaun Nix/Netflix © 2025
Welcome alongside to a different massive 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. Things are trying a lot rosier on the worldwide slate, notably on the documentary slate. Here are all the most important tales from the Netflix prime 10s.
Note: In this report of Netflix’s hours considered from May twelfth, 2025 to May 18th, 2025, we’ll use “Complete Viewings Equivalent,” or CVE, expressed in tens of millions. That means we divide the hours considered 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 is 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 vital failure.
The animated anthology collection Love, Death & Robots returned final week for its fourth season. Despite 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”
Last 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 attention-grabbing title, which helped it enter the Top 10 this week, however with solely 5M CVEs, it’s acting at a median 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 centered on the Boston bombing and O.J. Simpson. Whatever purpose for the delay from its preliminary launch earlier this yr paid off.
And lastly, 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 collection one would wish to be a part of). Here, too, the most recent 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 beneath the launches of the European collection The Breakthrough and The Glass Dome this yr. It’s a mini-series, so there’s no actual stakes right here, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly not the place the subsequent I Think You Should Leave will come from.
One collection that doubtless gained’t be getting one other season is Bet, 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. Unless it have been a part of an preliminary two-season order, I’d wager (sorry) that Bet shall be cancelled.
4. Secrets We Keep is now not secret
I took a small gamble on it final week, and the Danish mini-series Secrets We Keep didn’t show me improper, pulling off the second-best launch for a European mini-series launched on a Thursday, behind La Palma however forward of Dear Child, 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. Well accomplished, Netflix Denmark.
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 new Spanish collection launches. Its destiny now is dependent upon the way it performs within the coming days, however issues aren’t trying promising.
6. Franklin is transferring 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. Based on comparisons in my dataset, it seems to be more likely to be renewed.
That’s all for this week, be at liberty to tell us what you suppose within the feedback beneath.