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It was a week of high highs and surprising lows for Netflix’s top 10s. If you thought audiences were getting tired of high-octane action movies, the massive debut of APEX is here to prove otherwise, lifting the English Film category to one of its strongest weeks in recent memory. However, the same can’t be said for the television side. In one of the quietest weeks for English TV we’ve seen since we started tracking, highly anticipated follow-ups like Beef Season 2 and Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 debuted with numbers well under expectations. Let’s break down the hits, the misses, and the downright strange trends for the week of April 26th, 2026.
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Omissions this week: This is a Gardening Show with Zach Galifianakis, which got a lot of social buzz when it was first announced, and despite some positive reviews, it’s a no-show in the top 10s. Also, no shows for Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, Santita, Beyond the Game: Samurai 2026 WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC, Cocomelon Lane S7, Funny AF with Kevin Hart, We Are All Trying Here, and KillTonyMania. Quite a lot of no shows!
As always, let’s compare the weekly top 10 views in each category against prior weeks dating back to June 2023 to see if this week was a particularly quiet or busy week at the top end of Netflix’s viewing:
- English TV: 39,600,000 views (Rank 114 of 149 weeks)
- English Film: 97,500,000 views (Rank 19 of 149 weeks)
- Non-English TV: 26,900,000 views (Rank 82 of 149 weeks)
- Non-English Film: 17,800,000 views (Rank 139 of 149 weeks)
1. APEX Proves Action Movies Keeps on Working for Netflix
You’d be forgiven if you thought Netflix movies have been hitting the same couple of notes on the English language side all year. You’ve either got action or comedy and not much in between, but it’s working. APEX debuts with 38.2M views, making it the third biggest premiere of 2026 so far, behind The Rip and War Machineand just above Thrash. All similar premieres so we’ll see how it tracks compared to those counterparts in the weeks to come.
2. Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 Comes In Under High Expectations
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Believe it or not, there aren’t actually too many shows to compare against in this category, given that the majority of animated shows designed for younger ones release early in the week, and the more adult fare (likeHaunted HotelorBlue Eye Samurai, for instance) are released on a Friday.That’s not to mention that many animated shows just don’t show up in the top 10s (see Twilight of the Gods, Tomb Raider, Long Story Short, etc), so just appearing is good, but among those we can rank it against, you’d think that the Stranger Things brand would carry more oompfh. Of course, it doesn’t matter so much given the series was already renewed well ahead of time for a season 2.
We are seeing the show collapsing in the daily top 10 charts now heading into its full week, and as of today, it has fallen out of the global top 10 daily chart, currently residing at #12. We’ll see if it can even make it into the global weekly top 10s next Tuesday. We could do a post-mortem on this soon. It certainly doesn’t help the fanbase, for Stranger Things has become rather toxic since the finale, which split audiences, and the brunt of that has, sadly, landed, rightly or wrongly, at Tales from ’85’s feet.
3. Unchosen Season 1 Debuts High, But Premiered Earlier in the Week
Taking the top spot in the English TV top 10s this week is the British show Unchosen, which was released, strangely, on a Tuesday (a spot that One Piece held for a month or so, but traditionally given to docu-series). For a British scripted show, you have to go all the way back to 2022 when Hard Cell launched and didn’t enter the top 10s.
Given the lack of screeners handed out and limited press coverage, it was hard to know which way this would go. We know that cult documentaries do gangbusters, so would a scripted series? Given it scored 10.4M – I’d say that’s pretty impressive stacked up a very limited range of other titles.
4. Has Beef season 2 caught up?
Last week, the big story for the top 10s was that Beef was severely struggling against its predecessor, and now, in week 2, despite a 69% rise in viewing hours, the damage has been done, especially compared to season 1, which rose 107% in week 2. Season 2 is now at 6.5M views total, a whopping 63% down from season to season. Again, why wasn’t this uploaded as a new tile with a new title? That seems to be the biggest sticking point. Not great. All I’ll say is that this well-timed THR interview hints at the fate of the show.
5. Running Point returns for season 2 down
A recurring theme is that all shows seem to be struggling to hold theiraudiences, and that’s true forRunning Point, which debuts down 46% from season 1, despite a slightly shorter runtime. That doesn’t seem terminal for a comedy series like this, so fingers crossed season 3 is on the way, but not quite what you’d want either.
6. Hulk Hogan Doesn’t Make Much of an Impact
Hulk Hogan’s posthumous documentary series has arrived, and compared to other docu-series released on a Wednesday, traditionally reserved for crime docu-series, it didn’t do all that great, with just 3M views, putting it towards the bottom of shows also released on this day from years prior.
7. Roommates in Week 2
The first of two Adam Sandler daughter movies dropped last week, and it did OK in the top 10s, although it fell short of a few other titles in the genre from years prior. In week 2, viewing hours grew 37% but it ultimately is still trailing most of its counterparts.
8. Untold is back in the Top 10s after Jail Blazers and Chess Mates were no-shows
It’s been a rough season for Untold so far, with a UK spin-off soon to join throughout May, and the two most recent entries have been complete no-shows in the top 10s. The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill puts things back on track, though, with 4.5M views. Here’s how that stacks up against prior entries, which were all released on a Tuesday.
9. Thrash in Week 3
The shark thriller Thrash took the fourth spot in the top 10s this week, although it is showing significant leveling off compared to the two more action-oriented movies The Rip and War Machine, despite being in touching distance fairly early on.
10. International TV Premieres
Moving on to some of last week’s international releases, let’s begin with Netflix France, which debuted its new comedy, Flunked. Not loads ot compare it against in this category, with Represent probably being the closest, although that struggled in the top 10s throughout its two seasons. As with all local comedies, it’s important to look at its performance in the top 10s in its home country, and there it’s doing well, with it being #1 in France since its debut thus far. If it can hit the 3-4 week mark, it’ll have a good shot at renewal.
If Wished Could Kill is the latest Friday premiere for a Korean limited series and topped the Non-English TV charts with 2.8M views. That puts it around the middle of the pack compared to other shows in terms of release day and genre.
Full List of Top 10s for Week Ending April 26th, 2026
English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unchosen: Season 1 | 46,900,000 | 10,400,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Running Point: Season 2 | 25,200,000 | 5,300,000 | 1 |
| 3 | BEEF: Season 2 | 23,800,000(68.79%) | 4,100,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Raw: April 20, 2026 | 6,600,000(17.86%) | 3,300,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Hulk Hogan: Real American: Limited Series | 12,300,000 | 3,000,000 | 1 |
| 6 | Salish & Jordan Matter: Season 1 | 10,100,000(-42.94%) | 2,900,000 | 3 |
| 7 | Stranger Things: Tales From 85: Season 1 | 13,800,000 | 2,800,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Trust Me: The False Prophet: Season 1 | 8,600,000(-62.11%) | 2,600,000 | 3 |
| 9 | The Staircase: Season 1 | 22,700,000 | 2,600,000 | 1 |
| 10 | Million Dollar Secret: Season 2 | 14,600,000 | 2,600,000 | 1 |
English Film
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apex | 60,500,000 | 38,200,000 | 1 |
| 2 | 180 | 27,700,000(84.67%) | 17,500,000 | 2 |
| 3 | Roommates | 21,500,000(36.94%) | 12,100,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Thrash | 13,800,000(-72.12%) | 9,600,000 | 3 |
| 5 | Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill | 5,600,000 | 4,500,000 | 1 |
| 6 | KPop Demon Hunters | 7,000,000(-5.41%) | 4,200,000 | 45 |
| 7 | War Machine | 5,800,000(-7.94%) | 3,200,000 | 8 |
| 8 | Trust | 4,700,000 | 3,100,000 | 1 |
| 9 | The Interpreter | 6,200,000 | 2,900,000 | 1 |
| 10 | Shooter | 4,500,000 | 2,200,000 | 6 |
Non-English TV
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sold Out on You: Limited Series | 10,300,000 | 4,700,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Ronaldinho: The One and Only: Limited Series | 11,500,000(-11.54%) | 4,100,000 | 2 |
| 3 | Fake Profile: Season 3 | 19,800,000(6.45%) | 3,000,000 | 2 |
| 4 | If Wishes Could Kill: Limited Series | 16,900,000 | 2,800,000 | 1 |
| 5 | Alpha Males: Season 5 | 9,000,000(52.54%) | 2,600,000 | 2 |
| 6 | Bloodhounds: Season 2 | 15,400,000(-39.84%) | 2,200,000 | 4 |
| 7 | Flunked: Season 1 | 8,300,000 | 2,000,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Bandi: Season 1 | 14,700,000(-63.70%) | 1,900,000 | 3 |
| 9 | The Law According to Lidia Poët: Season 3 | 9,500,000(-7.77%) | 1,800,000 | 2 |
| 10 | Made with Love: Season 1 | 8,500,000(-23.42%) | 1,800,000 | 2 |
Non-English Film
| Rank | Title | Hours | Views | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love at Last | 3,900,000 | 2,600,000 | 1 |
| 2 | Do Deewane Seher Mein | 5,700,000(83.87%) | 2,500,000 | 2 |
| 3 | Toaster | 4,800,000(-47.83%) | 2,300,000 | 2 |
| 4 | Youth | 5,300,000(1.92%) | 2,300,000 | 2 |
| 5 | Ustaad Bhagat Singh | 4,700,000(-24.19%) | 1,900,000 | 2 |
| 6 | On Your Lap | 2,200,000 | 1,300,000 | 1 |
| 7 | Yiya Murano: Death at Tea Time | 2,200,000 | 1,300,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Feel My Voice | 2,200,000(-64.52%) | 1,200,000 | 3 |
| 9 | Humint | 2,400,000(-22.58%) | 1,200,000 | 4 |
| 10 | Untouchables | 2,900,000 | 1,200,000 | 1 |
That’s it for this week – let us know in the comments down below your biggest stories for the week!
