Jeremy Saulnier’s high-velocity thriller Rebel Ridge, held onto the #1 spot with 38.6M views, making it the most-watched title of the week. The certified fresh film stars breakout Aaron Pierre, who gives a “star in the making” performance as a former ex-Marine who navigates his way through a web of small-town corruption.
Secrets, scandals, and drama were served ice cold and straight up on the English TV List this week. Susanne Bier’s whodunnit limited series The Perfect Couple, starring Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber, Meghann Fahy, Eve Hewson, and Dakota Fanning, spent another week atop the list clocking 21.9M views. Season 4, Part 2 of Emily in Paris debuted in second place with 11.5M views. While our favorite ingenue’s move to Rome may have shocked some, don’t worry, she made sure to pack all her drama. But with the announcement of Season 5, we see excess baggage fees in her future. The ladies of the Oppenheim Group sent the “sale-acious” Season 8 of reality series Selling Sunset into fourth (4.4M views). Familial feuding got a god-like turbocharge in Charlie Cowell’s dark comedy series KAOS, starring Jeff Goldblum, which claimed fifth (3.4M views).
Uglies, the adaption of the New York Times best-selling YA dystopian novel starring Joey King, Chase Stokes, and Laverne Cox, debuted at #2 on the English Films List with 20.8M views. Andra Day and Glenn Close reminded fans that you don’t mess with mamas, sending Lee Daniels’ horror thriller The Deliverance to #4 with 7M views. Halle Berry recruited Mark Wahlberg into a mission to thrill fans in the action-comedy The Union, which returned to the list at #8 with 3.9M 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 2.2M 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 (that plot is undeniable).
Documentaries had two entries this week. Two-part documentary feature Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter entered the English Films List in third place (8.1M views) and docuseries Worst Ex Ever returned to the English TV List in sixth place (2.8M views).
Four new titles entered the Non-English Films List this week. The action comedy Officer Black Belt (Korea), claimed #1 (8.3M views), the crime thriller, Sector 36 (India) took #3 (3.6M views), the gritty drama Boxer (Poland) swung at #5 (2.3M views) and the irreverent satire Technoboys (Mexico) spun at #9 (1.2M views).
The emotional thriller The Accident (Mexico) rose to the top spot on the Non-English TV List, racking up 3.5M views. Making their list debuts were the sports documentary Ángel Di María: Breaking Down the Wall (Argentina) in fourth place (1.7M views), the offbeat drama from the creators of Lilyhammer, Billionaire Island (Norway), in eighth (1M views), and Season 2 of the suspenseful drama Midnight at the Pera Palace (Turkey) in (0.8M views).
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(Source: Netflix)
