Netflix's Most Binge-Watched Shows of the Past Five Years, Ranked by Premiere-Week Completion Speed
In the last five years, Netflix's top binge-worthy series include Squid Game season 2, which achieved an impressive 68 million views within just four days of its debut on December 26, 2024, setting a record for the largest premiere week. Following closely was the first volume of Stranger Things 5, amassing 59.6 million views in five days after its November 26, 2025 release. Wednesday season 1 attracted 50.1 million views following its November 23, 2022 launch, while Bridgerton season 3 premiered with 45.1 million views on May 16, 2024. Additionally, Fool Me Once garnered 37.1 million views starting January 1, 2024, and Adolescence reached 66.3 million views in 11 days post its March 13, 2025 release. Other noteworthy titles include Avatar: The Last Airbender (21.2 million views), The Night Agent (20.8 million), and One Piece (18.5 million). Initially, Baby Reindeer had 2.6 million views, but this number soared to 88 million by mid-2024.
Key facts
- Squid Game season 2 set Netflix's all-time premiere-week record with 68 million views in four days after its Dec. 26, 2024 release
- Stranger Things 5 volume one drew 59.6 million views in five days, the biggest English-language series debut in Netflix history
- Wednesday season 1 held the premiere-week record for two years with about 50.1 million views after Nov. 23, 2022
- Adolescence set a limited-series record with 66.3 million views in 11 days and won eight Emmys in September 2025
- Baby Reindeer opened with just 2.6 million views but reached 88 million views in Netflix's January-June 2024 engagement report
- Netflix defines one view as total hours watched divided by a title's runtime
- The median time for a Netflix viewer to finish a season is four to six days
- Avatar: The Last Airbender's second season dropped 59% from its first-season opening with 8.7 million views
Entities
Artists
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Lee Jung-jae
- Matt Duffer
- Ross Duffer
- Alfred Gough
- Miles Millar
- Charles Addams
- Jenna Ortega
- Tim Burton
- Shonda Rhimes
- Julia Quinn
- Nicola Coughlan
- Luke Newton
- Luke Thompson
- Yerin Ha
- Harlan Coben
- Michelle Keegan
- Richard Armitage
- Adeel Akhtar
- Joanna Lumley
- Jack Thorne
- Stephen Graham
- Philip Barantini
- Owen Cooper
- Erin Doherty
- Michael Dante DiMartino
- Bryan Konietzko
- Gordon Cormier
- Kiawentiio
- Ian Ousley
- Dallas Liu
- Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
- Daniel Dae Kim
- Albert Kim
- Shawn Ryan
- Matthew Quirk
- Gabriel Basso
- Luciane Buchanan
- Eiichiro Oda
- Iñaki Godoy
- Mackenyu
- Emily Rudd
- Richard Gadd
- Jessica Gunning
Institutions
- Netflix
- Shondaland
- Nickelodeon
- Shueisha
- Weekly Shonen Jump
- Tomorrow Studios
- FX
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Primetime Emmy Awards
Locations
- South Korea
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Hawkins
- Indiana
- Las Vegas
- London
Sources
- Quartz —