Suspense ruled the Top 10 last week as viewers gravitated toward an intricate mystery and a harrowing survival tale. The Korean disaster film The Great Flood took No. 1 on the non-English film list with 27.9 million views, and Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery held its spot at No. 1 on the English film list for a second week with 20.9 million views. The first film centers on Koo An-na (Kim Da-mi), a mother and artificial intelligence researcher trapped with her son in a high-rise apartment building that’s quickly filling with water as she races to solve a larger mystery at play. In search of another tough case, viewers turned to the latest Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigation, in which a small-town priest, Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), becomes the prime suspect in the seemingly impossible murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin).
KPop Demon Hunters continues to rack up accomplishments: in addition to grabbing the No. 3 spot on the English film list with 7.9 million views, the film has reached another milestone by surpassing 500 million total views since its premiere.
On the English TV list, the Christmas comedy Man vs. Baby, starring Rowan Atkinson, landed at No. 1 with 14.6 million views. A follow-up to the 2022 series Man vs. Bee, Atkinson reprises his role as Trevor Bingley, who’s lured back to house-sitting with a lucrative offer when a lost baby suddenly becomes his responsibility, threatening his relaxing holiday retreat.
Ooh la la, Emily in Paris returned with its fifth season, taking the No. 2 spot on the list with 13.5 million views. The new season — which reached the Top 10 in 91 countries and landed at No. 1 in 24, including France, Italy, Brazil, and Germany — sees Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) moving to Rome to open a new office location for Agence Grateau while exploring her new romance with Marcello (Eugenio Franceschini).
On Dec. 19, Jake Paul got the fight he’d been looking for when former two-time unified heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua met him in the ring, putting Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua at No. 3 on the English TV list with 10.9 million views.
In anticipation of this week’s premiere of Stranger Things 5, Volume 2, viewers continued to soak up Volume 1, placing it at No. 4 with 8.2 million views, for a combined total of 102.6 million views globally to date. Fans made their excitement clear, putting all four former seasons back in the Top 10 for a fourth week: Season 1 at No. 8 (3.5 million views), Season 2 at No. 10 (3.3 million views), Season 3 at No. 7 (3.6 million views), and Season 4 at No. 6 (3.9 million views). In a surprise treat, fans who attended the Tony award-winning Broadway play Stranger Things: The First Shadow last Friday, Dec. 19, saw Vecna himself, Jamie Campbell Bower, reprise his role as Henry Creel for a cameo in the play’s final scene. Volume 2 comes out at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET on Christmas Day, and The Finale arrives at the same time on New Year’s Eve.
Premiering in the No. 9 spot on the English TV list with 3.3 million views was the new stand-up comedy special Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable…. With his usual no-holds-barred sense of humor, Chappelle delivers potent punchlines as he touches on everything from headlines to censorship.
New to Netflix last week was the true crime documentary Murder in Monaco, which intrigued its way to No. 6 on the English film list with 6.3 million views. The film walks viewers through the 1999 case of wealthy private banker Edmond Safra, who was found dead of smoke inhalation in his heavily secured Monaco penthouse apartment, the victim of a staged home invasion that went horribly wrong.
The second season of Culinary Class Wars debuted at the top of the non-English TV list with 5.5 million views. The first three episodes of the Korean competition series introduce a new set of “Black Spoon” cooks who challenge the pedigreed “White Spoon” chefs. This season also includes “Hidden White Spoons” — two returning chefs from last year’s tournament.
The limited series City of Shadows followed close behind, taking No. 2 on the list with 4.5 million views. Based on Aro Sáinz de la Maza’s popular novel El verdugo de Gaudí, the Spanish crime thriller stars Isak Férriz as Milo Malart, an inspector who, though recently suspended for insubordination, returns to duty in Barcelona to investigate a mysterious death.
Viewers also continued to feel the holiday spirit: Christmas titles were sprinkled throughout the English film list. Among the most watched movies this week were the disguise-centric rom-com My Secret Santa (No. 5, 7.4 million views), the realtor-rancher match-up A Cowboy Christmas Romance (No. 7, 4.6 million views), and the festive family adventure The Christmas Chronicles (No. 9, 3.5 million views), starring Kurt Russell as Santa Claus.
Troll 2, the Troll sequel about folklore-inspired creatures who clash in the Norwegian mountains, seized the No. 2 spot on the non-English film list, earning 3.1 million views.
The new film A Time for Bravery launched in the No. 3 spot on the list with 3.1 million views. The Mexican action-comedy follows a psychoanalyst (Luis Gerardo Méndez) and a police officer (Bernardo Velasco) who team up on an adventure of national security, new friendships, and second chances.
