The latest weekly data dump from Netflix, revealing its most-watched series around the world, makes it abundantly clear which show is the reigning champ among Netflix original TV franchises right now.
The Regency-era drama Bridgerton comprises 30% of the new Netflix Top 10 TV shows list, with the show’s three seasons now having spent a collective 30 weeks on the chart. It’s a reminder that the show — which has also produced a prequel spinoff, Queen Charlotte — remains indispensable to the streaming giant and one of if not the biggest staple, at a time when its past hits like Stranger Things and The Crown are either winding down or already over.
We’ll take a closer look at Bridgerton Season 3 below — as well as the rest of the shows on this week’s Top 10 list.
Netflix Top 10 shows (May 20-May 26)
To learn more about some of this week’s most-watched series, you can also go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of several of the Netflix originals on this list, from a new Jurassic World show to a quirky series from the Obamas about podcasters visiting a picturesque Irish town, as well as Baby Reindeer — a drama everyone has been losing their minds over for the past several weeks, about a struggling British comedian and the woman who stalks him.
This week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix includes:
- Bridgerton (Season 3) — 25.2 million views
- Bridgerton (Season 1) — 6.4 million views
- Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Scandal (Season 1) — 6.3 million views
- Bridgerton (Season 2) — 5.3 million views
- Baby Reindeer — 4.5 million views
- Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Season 1) — 3.8 million views
- Tires (Season 1) — 3.8 million
- Queen Charlotte (A Bridgerton Story) — 3.1 million views
- Bodkin (Season 1) — 1.9 million views
- Buying London (Season 1) — 1.9 million views
Next, let’s zero in on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world this week.
Bridgerton Season 3 — #1 on Netflix
What’s often the case with a major Netflix franchise over multiple seasons is that its popularity and/or critical acclaim tends to wane, the longer things drag on.
However, that’s very much not the case with Bridgerton, which is more popular than ever three seasons in to this romantic drama about the interactions between high society families in England’s Regency era. Viewers come for the debutante balls, matchmaking, romantic entanglements, and steamy love scenes, and they stick around for the addictive storytelling that includes scandal and intrigue as well as passionate romance.
The second half of Bridgerton‘s new season arrives next month, but for now the new season is a Top 10 Netflix series in 92 countries. Moreover, it’s also the best reviewed of all three seasons, as you can see below from the latest Rotten Tomatoes data:
- Bridgerton Season 1 — 87% critics score, 70% audience score
- Bridgerton Season 2 — 77% critics score, 75% audience score
- Bridgerton Season 3 — 86% critics score, 87% audience score