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    Have You Watched All of Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular TV Shows?

    These series are hits with audiences worldwide.

    By Ashley Lee
    Sept. 15, 2026

A TV show that’s a hit with the entire world? That’s the case with these titles: From crime dramas and supernatural shows to Regency-era romances, they cover topics like political conspiracies, murder mysteries, and even a few compelling games of chess.

Peruse the definitive list of Netflix’s Top 10 most popular TV shows of all time, the rankings of which are based on total global views in their first 91 days on the service, and discover new gems to add to your watch list or revisit old favorites — especially those with new seasons just around the corner.

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Bridgerton

No. 10 (Season 3)
The captivating third season of the hit series about the Mayfair marriage mart of eligible debutantes (and their meddling families) centered on wallflower Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and her lifelong friend Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton). This standout chapter of the show, based on Julia Quinn’s series of novels, also reveals the identity of society columnist Lady Whistledown, who keeps England’s women of status on their toes. It premiered in 2024 and earned 106 million views.

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The Queen's Gambit

No. 9
This critically acclaimed drama stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, a uniquely gifted orphan in 1950s Kentucky who rises to the top of the international chess world while also grappling with addiction. Moses Ingram, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Marielle Heller, and Bill Camp co-star in the seven-episode thriller based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis. The 2020 limited series racked up 112.8 million views and won 11 Emmy Awards.

Bridgerton

No. 8 (Season 1)
The inaugural season of the Regency-era romance series introduces audiences to the titular family and its eight siblings. It kicks off the matchmaking marathon with the eldest Bridgerton daughter, Duchess Daphne Basset (Phoebe Dynevor), as she navigates the dos and don’ts of the social season — courtship protocol, dating etiquette, and the scandal sheets penned by Lady Whistledown. The 2020 release, also starring Regé-Jean Page as Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, garnered 113.3 million views.

DAHMER

No. 7
Before Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and Monster: The Ed Gein Story, there was 2022’s DAHMER, in which Evan Peters portrays the serial killer who murdered 17 people between 1978 and 1991. Created by Ryan Murphy, it explores Dahmer’s past and questions the systemic prejudices and institutional failures that permitted his crimes. Niecy Nash, Richard Jenkins, and Molly Ringwald co-star in the first installment of the anthology, which accumulated 115.6 million views.

Wednesday

No. 6 (Season 2)
More Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, solving a new mystery at Nevermore Academy? Yes, please, and don’t forget that she has to fend off a new villain and prevent the death of her werewolf roommate, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers). The second season also introduces more members of the Addams family. Audiences waited three years for more episodes and ate them up when Season 2 premiered in 2025, collecting 119.3 million views.

I Will Find You

No. 5
Sam Worthington stars in this thriller series as David Burroughs, an innocent father serving a life sentence for the murder of his own son. When he receives evidence that his child may still be alive, he embarks on a truth-finding mission that leads him out of prison and into a world of deceit and despair. Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia, Logan Browning, and Madeleine Stowe are also in the Harlan Coben adaptation, which accrued 120.3 million views.

Stranger Things

No. 4 (Season 5)

This series, which debuted in 2016, began with four middle school boys in Hawkins, Indiana who meet a mysterious young girl with psychokinetic abilities named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). Nearly a decade later, the show’s fifth and final season sees the group of friends fighting Vecna and the Mind Flayer for the last time. It doesn’t end without an epic battle, complicated by a huge discovery about the Upside Down and by the military quarantining the town as they hunt down Eleven. The season collected 133.8 million views.

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No. 3 (Season 4)
Sure, this sci-fi horror series set in the ’80s started out with a small town plagued by a missing boy and an enigmatic alternate dimension called the Upside Down. But the show’s fourth season sets the action across the country, with the psychokinetic teen Eleven confronting her past and a humanoid monster that’s way more terrifying than the Demogorgons — or any other creature that came before it. Released in 2022, it amassed 140.7 million views.

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No. 2
When a 13-year-old boy is implicated in the death of a classmate, his world — and his family’s — is upended. Owen Cooper plays the teen in question, and the drama series traces the emotional fallout while highlighting the pressures that young men face from their peers in real life and online. The story unfolds across four episodes, each filmed in a single take. It earned 142.6 million views and won eight Emmy Awards.

Wednesday

No. 1 (Season 1)
It turns out everybody loves a goth girl with psychic abilities and deadpan charm. The comedy series introduces Ortega as Wednesday Addams, with Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones as her parents, Gomez and Morticia Addams. In the debut season, Wednesday enrolls at her parents’ alma mater, a private school designed to educate supernatural pupils, and investigates a local murder mystery. The 2022 installment notched 252.1 million views.

 

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