The Perfect Couple holds on to Netflix #1
September 18, 2024
Susanne Bier’s whodunnit limited series The Perfect Couple, starring Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber, spent another week atop Netflix’s English TV List clocking 21.9 million views in the week commencing September 9th. Season 4, Part 2 of Emily in Paris debuted in second place with 11.5 million views. The ladies of the Oppenheim Group sent Season 8 of reality series Selling Sunset into fourth (4.4 million views). Familial feuding got a god-like turbocharge in Charlie Cowell’s dark comedy series KAOS, starring Jeff Goldblum, which claimed fifth (3.4 million views).
Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller Rebel Ridge held onto the #1 spotin the English Movie List with 38.6 million views, making it the most-watched title of the week. Uglies, the adaption of the best-selling YA dystopian novel debuted at #2 on the list with 20.8 million views. Lee Daniels’ horror thriller The Deliverance was at #4 with 7 million views. Halle Berry recruited Mark Wahlberg in action-comedy The Union, which returned to the list at #8 with 3.9 million views.
Season 2 of the preschool animated series Hot Wheels Let’s Race burned rubber to debut at #9 on the English TV List with 2.2 million views. And fans were in the mood to watch the 2005 hit about two brothers turned inmates – Seasons 1, 2 and 3 of the thriller series Prison Break all appeared on the list.
Documentaries had two entries this week. Two-part documentary feature Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter entered the English Films List in third place (8.1 million views) and docuseries Worst Ex Ever returned to the English TV List in sixth place (2.8 million views).
Four new titles entered the Non-English Films List this week. The action comedy Officer Black Belt (Korea), claimed #1 (8.3 million views), the crime thriller, Sector 36 (India) took #3 (3.6 million views), the gritty drama Boxer (Poland) swung at #5 (2.3 million views) and the irreverent satire Technoboys (Mexico) spun at #9 (1.2 million views).
The emotional thriller The Accident (Mexico) rose to the top spot on the Non-English TV List, racking up 3.5 million views. Making their list debuts were the sports documentary Ángel Di María: Breaking Down the Wall (Argentina) in fourth place (1.7 million views), the offbeat drama Billionaire Island (Norway) in eighth (1 million views), and Season 2 of the suspenseful drama Midnight at the Pera Palace (Turkey) in (0.8 million views).