Bela Bajaria Chief Content Officer at Netflix | Official website
The raunchy teen comedy "Incoming" led the English Films List with 16.9 million views, making it the most-watched title of the week ending August 26. Glenn Close garnered attention for her performance in Lee Daniels’ horror thriller "The Deliverance," which debuted in third place with 14.5 million views. The action-packed comedy "The Union," starring Halle Berry and Mark Wahlberg, secured second place with 16.8 million views, while the Nigerian action-thriller "Tòkunbò" ranked fourth with 5.3 million views.
Charlie Cowell’s dark comedy series "KAOS," featuring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, debuted in fourth place on the English TV List with 3.4 million views. The show portrays the Gods of Olympus as a dysfunctional family unaware of mortals who could bring them down.
On the English TV List, Season 4, Part 1 of "Emily in Paris" took second place with 6.5 million views ahead of its Part 2 release on September 12. Adam Sandler’s latest comedy special, "Adam Sandler: Love You," debuted at fifth place with 2.4 million views, while the reunion episode of "Love is Blind: UK" brought the reality series back to ninth place with 2 million views. The final season of "The Umbrella Academy" claimed eighth place with 2.1 million views.
Documentaries also performed well this week. "Worst Ex Ever" topped the English TV List with 8.4 million views, followed by "American Murder: Laci Peterson" in third (4.1M) and "Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War" in seventh (2.2M). On the English Films List, documentaries such as "Untold: The Murder of Air McNair" and "Untold: Sign Stealer" took sixth (4M) and seventh places (3.5M), respectively.
In non-English content, India's sci-fi thriller "Kalki2898 AD" led the Non-English TV List with 2.6 million views, followed by Mexico's thriller "Untamed Royals" at second (2.4M) and Argentina's drama "(Un)lucky Sisters" at third (1.3M).
For a second consecutive week, Mexico's emotional thriller “The Accident” topped the Non-English TV List with 11.9 million views. New entrants included India’s thriller “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack” in second (4.1M), Spain’s drama “Breathless” in third (3.8M), Japan’s animated action-drama “Terminator Zero” in sixth (1.7M), and Denmark’s intimate drama “Baby Fever” in ninth (1.4M).
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Correction: The Top 10 for the week of August 19 incorrectly listed the Korean series “I Am Solo” at #8 on the global Non-English List due to an error in runtime calculation that inflated view counts.
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