29-05-2025
‘Adolescence' Poised To Surpass ‘Stranger Things 4' As Netflix's No. 2 Most Popular English Series; ‘Sirens' Debuts Leading Weekly TV List
Adolescence is about to become Netflix's second most-watched English-language series of all time.
The limited series has seen outsize success since its March 13 release, prompting talks of a follow up, and now it is on the brink of surpassing Stranger Things 4 to reach a huge milestone on the streamer.
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Although it fell off the weekly Top 10 in the last few weeks, Adolescence has quietly climbed to 140.2M views in 75 days, and there's still time left in its 91-day premiere window to keep growing.
By next week, it will almost certainly have eked past the 140.7M views that Stranger Things 4 nabbed in its first 91 days.
It's pretty clear at this point that the modest project will not be overtaking Netflix's No. 1 English-language series, Wednesday, which holds an impressive 252M views in its premiere window.
However, this is still a major feat for Adolescence, which had no major star power attached to its jarring story about a 13-year-old boy (played by breakout Owen Cooper) accused of stabbing a female classmate to death after being drawn into the online manosphere. For it to overtake the most recent season of Stranger Things, which by the time it premiered had become one of Netflix's biggest franchises, speaks to the overwhelmingly successful word-of-mouth campaign that has boosted Adolescence to unexpected heights.
As for the weekly Top 10 from May 19 to 25, Sirens took the top spot with 16.7M views after premiering just ahead of Memorial Day weekend. That was the most-watched title of the week, followed by American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, which was bumped to second place this week with 10.7M views after debuting in first the week prior.
Newer offerings The Four Seasons and Forever also remained on the list, albeit a bit lower, in sixth and seventh place, respectively, with 3.2M views each. Tyler Perry's She the People came in eighth place with 2.7M views.
Non-English TV also performed quite well in this interval with the Danish mystery Secrets We Keep taking first place, growing to 12.7M views in its second week atop that list.
On the film side of things, Fear Street: Prom Queen rose to No. 1 with 10.7M views in its first three days. Meanwhile, Nonnas, the heartfelt drama set in an Italian restaurant, held on to the No. 3 spot in English films, with another 8.4M views.
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