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

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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

My Secret Santa. Alexandra Breckenridge as Taylor in My Secret Santa. Cr. Diyah Pera/Netflix ©2025

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. 

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.

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. 

4. Stranger Things Season 5 Has A Big Viewing Drop

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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

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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:

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. 

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. 

Those are our biggest stories for the week in the Netflix top 10s – let us know what you think in the comments down below.