Netflix’s Diddy Doc Opens Big, Stranger Things S5 Plunges 60 Percent in Week 2, Plus Debuts of The Abandons and My Secret Santa

Picture Credits: Netflix

Netflix’s latest top 10 charts are in! The streamer’s weekly scoreboard served up a full sampler box of surprises, from an unexpectedly strong holiday romcom to a Western wobbling out of the gate to a documentary about Diddy muscling its way into the conversation. Stranger Things stumbled, Troll 2 didn’t quite roar, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein continued its steady march toward awards season glory.

Before we get into it, a special shoutout to The Rats, the once-abandoned prequel story set in the world of The Witcher, which has just entered the global top 10s, having climbed the weekly charts around the world over the past week or so. We have no idea why it’s climbing, though. The usual culprits for a random boost are TikTok, but we couldn’t find any evidence of it. It could just be getting a big boost by the algo and snowballing from there.

As always, let’s begin with the weekly ranks comparing how this week’s top 10s stack up against other weeks dating back to mid-2023.

English TV – 93,300,000 (Rank 2 of 129 weeks) – Note: That last week was #1
English Film – 67,100,000 (Rank 88 of 129 weeks)
Non-English TV – 16,800,000 (Rank 125 of 129 weeks)
Non-English Film – 49,200,000 (Rank 25 of 129 weeks)

1. My Secret Santa Brings An End to Netflix’s Christmas Movie Slate

Does Virgin River star Alexandra Breckenridge have some pull on Netflix? Yes is the answer! Stacking up all the Christmas movies in recent years, My Secret Santa is set right in the middle of the pack with 18.1M views, putting it on par with the first week performance of Meet Me Next Christmas.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Our Little Secret	32,400,000	1
Champagne Problems	20,500,000	2
Jingle Bell Heist	19,300,000	3
That Christmas	18,300,000	4
My Secret Santa	18,100,000	5
Meet Me Next Christmas	18,100,000	6
Hot Frosty	16,000,000	7
The Merry Gentlemen	14,700,000	8
The Merry Gentlemen	14,700,000	9
I Believe in Santa	12,900,000	10
A Merry Little Ex-Mas	12,800,000	11
Christmas on Mistletoe Farm	7,800,000	12

Zooming out, Champagne Problems is the clear winner so far from the Christmas movie slate of 2025, but there are still a few weeks to go!

2. The Abandons Starts Low – Season 2 May Be At Risk

The troubled Western series The Abandons released last Thursday to very mixed reviews (including Time saying it was everything wrong with TV series in 2025 – yikes!), but could Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson help the series to a big debut in the charts? It premiered #4 for the week with 7.3M views and 37M hours watched.

Stacked against limited series and season premieres for 2025, it’s not all that great of a start and instant in cancellation territory if you see it ranked lower than The Waterfront.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Fool Me Once	37,100,000	1
UNTAMED – Season 1	24,600,000	2
Adolescence	24,300,000	3
Griselda	20,600,000	4
The Perfect Couple	20,300,000	5
Zero Day	19,100,000	6
Sirens	16,700,000	7
Hostage	10,800,000	8
Black Doves – Season 1	10,800,000	9
American Primeval	10,400,000	10
All The Light We Cannot See	9,800,000	11
The Madness	9,300,000	12
The Waterfront	8,300,000	13
The Abandons	7,300,000	14
The Beast in Me	6,900,000	15
Black Rabbit	6,600,000	16
The Residence	6,400,000	17
A Man in Full	6,300,000	18
The Fall of the House of Usher	6,300,000	19
Apple Cider Vinegar	3,800,000	20
Death by Lightning	3,200,000	21
Ripley	2,300,000	22

3. Netflix’s Diddy Documentary Performs Strong

It’s dominated the headlines for over a week, and that always meant it was going to score big numbers. Netflix doesn’t typically release its biggest docu-series on Tuesday, so there’s a limited pool of titles to compare it against, but it’s safe to say it smoked most of the competition. We did add in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise (even though it’s a movie) just to demonstrate how big it was, and that held the Netflix record for most-watched doc released on a Tuesday.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Sean Combs: The Reckoning	21,800,000	1
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise	21,100,000	2
Jerry Springer: Fights Camera Action	7,700,000	3
Trainwreck: Storm Area 51	7,000,000	4
Homicide – New York	6,600,000	5
Who Killed Jill Dando?	5,500,000	6
Homicide – Los Angeles	4,300,000	7
How to Become a Mob Boss	3,900,000	8
Americas Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys	1,900,000	9

4. Stranger Things Season 5 Has A Big Viewing Drop

Last week, Stranger Things broke a Netflix record in being the biggest English-language series ever in terms of views. This week, its viewing hours dropped a whopping 60%. Season 4 rose 17% in comparison to its second week. Of course, there are a lot of factors going into all this, including the fact that season 5 debuted during Thanksgiving week at a primetime spot, but given how it matched the hours of season 4 in week 1 (nearly enough), it’s still a substantial drop. Season 4 was released in two volumes.

5. Adam Sandler Can’t Save Jay Kelly

6 Adam Sandler And George Clooney Noa Baumbach Jay Kelly Netflix Film

Picture: Netflix

Adam Sandler, more often than not, is a sure sign that a project is going to pull in big numbers for Netflix. That’s not the case for Jay Kelly, which is the weakest English language movie debut of the year for Netflix Originals, pulling in just 5.1M views in its first week:

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Back in Action	46,800,000	1
Happy Gilmore 2	46,700,000	2
The Old Guard 2	37,500,000	3
Havoc	29,800,000	4
Frankenstein	29,100,000	5
STRAW	25,300,000	6
The Electric State	25,200,000	7
Kinda Pregnant	25,100,000	8
The Thursday Murder Club	24,700,000	9
My Oxford Year	24,600,000	10
The Life List	24,400,000	11
A House of Dynamite	22,100,000	12
The Woman in Cabin 10	21,200,000	13
La Dolce Villa	19,800,000	14
Madeas Destination Wedding	19,100,000	15
Nonnas	15,300,000	16
Plankton: The Movie	14,300,000	17
Fear Street: Prom Queen	10,700,000	18
Ruth and Boaz	10,300,000	19
KPop Demon Hunters	9,200,000	20
In Your Dreams	8,300,000	21
Ballad of a Small Player	6,900,000	22
Train Dreams	6,200,000	23
The Twits	5,900,000	24
Jay Kelly	5,100,000	25

6. Troll 2 May Not Reach The Heights of the First

Kicking off the month was the second installment of the Troll movie series. As you may know, the first one still sits atop Netflix’s all-time most-watched non-English movie list. Sadly, since December 1st was a Monday, we don’t have many other comps, and even comparing against Troll 1 isn’t necessarily fair, since it launched on a Thursday. Even with more days to pick up views, Troll 2 isn’t quite matching the heights of the first movie in its opening week, but we’ll wait to see how it evolves in the weeks to come.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Troll	43,800,000	1
Troll 2	29,300,000	2
Narvik	20,900,000	3

7. Frankenstein Has Legs

One of Netflix’s biggest hopes for this season is undoubtedly Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s epic that has now spent 5 weeks in the top 10s and is behaving like some of Netflix’s other award movies with broad appeal, like Rebel Ridge and Glass Onion. As of week 5, Frankenstein has picked up just shy of a quarter of a billion viewing hours and 88.5M views.

8. The Price of Confession

Finally, we’ll take a look at the new Korean series The Price of Confession, which debuts around the middle of the pack compared to other debut South Korean series released throughout 2025.

Title	Cumulative Views (1 weeks)	Rank
Mercy for None	4,900,000	1
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call	4,700,000	2
Karma – Season 1	3,600,000	3
As You Stood By	2,300,000	4
The Price of Confession	2,200,000	5
Dear Hongrang	2,200,000	6
You and Everything Else	1,700,000	7
Aema	1,100,000	8