In another week of relative tedium for the “Tudum”-branded streaming giant, Netflix viewership for Andrew Scott’s Ripley barely increased in its first full week on the platform.
The limited neo-noir television series, based on Patricia Highsmith’s popular and oft-adapted novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, generated just 18.4 million viewing hours and 2.5 million account views for the week of April 8-14, landing it at the No. 6 spot on Netflix's top 10 English series rankings.
Meanwhile, David Benioff’s science fiction series 3 Body Problem saw similarly stale numbers in its fourth week on Netflix. It landed the No. 1 spot among Netflix English-language series with just 35.5 million viewing hours and 4.8 million views.
Also ranking on Netflix’s English-language TV ranker was biographical drama Baby Reindeer, which garnered 10.4 million engagement hours and 2.6 million account views. The U.K.-produced limited series about a comedian by night and bartender by day who finds himself the focus of a stalker, has drawn media attention for its 100% Rotten Tomatoes score — a benchmark based on all of nine critics’ reviews.
Internationally, Netflix had a better week, with Korean sci-fi body horror series Parasyte: The Grey landing the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s non-English series rankings, with 49 million viewing hours and 9.8 million views.
Based on Hitoshi Iwaaki’s manga Parasyte, the series is a partial sequel to the animated series, and was the most popular Netflix series overall last week.
Netflix has yet to confirm whether it will receive a renewal for a second season.
Also performing strongly on the foreign side was Italian contemporary romance film The Tearsmith, which took the No. 1 spot among Netflix’s international movies with 29.8 million hours streamed and 17 million views.
Based on Erin Doom’s novel of the same name, the film follows 17-year-old Nica learning to leave behind her dark past and find love.
