Popular TV Shows on Netflix: Netflix has thousands of titles, which is amazing and overwhelming. Everything from dramas to comedy to reality shows and documentaries is available. To help you choose, Netflix lists its most popular shows. Netflix reveals the 10 most-watched TV series from the past week every week.
The new Netflix No. 1 may be your next true crime obsession. From the makers of The Tinder Swindler comes American Nightmare, a 2015 docuseries on “The Gone Girl Kidnapping”. Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben remains No. 2 this week. The top 10 U.S. shows from January 15 to 21 are shown below, along with genre, rating, cast, and summary.
Top 10 Most Popular TV Shows on Netflix
10. Love on the Spectrum season 2 (2022)
Netflix’s feel-good romance show Love on the Spectrum returns for season 2 with Abbey, James, Journey, Steve, Tanner, Dani, and Connor, a new group of young adults seeking romance. These seven optimistic singles are neurodivergent, meaning they have autism. Love is for everyone, and these participants are ready for its highs and lows.
The show emphasizes that love can be romantic or platonic. Love on the Spectrum emphasizes that leaving one’s comfort zone is the most crucial part of finding love.
9. The Trust: A Game of Greed season 1 (2024)
Netflix’s new reality game show The Trust: A Game of Greed values belief. 11 contestants can split $250,000 evenly, so everyone wins. Through eight episodes, no one is eliminated. Contestants can enhance their $250,000. share by voting each other out of The Trust. However, voting someone out of The Trust can lower your popularity.
Players can be eliminated with one vote. However, a tie or no vote keeps everyone in the tournament. Daily show challenges will reveal players’ motivations. The Trust tests greed to the limit. Can a stranger guarantee your financial future?
8. Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer (2023)
Dave Chappelle’s specials are cultural moments, for better or worse. Dave Chappelle’s first Netflix stand-up special since 2021’s The Closer is Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer. Chappelle’s trans and disability jokes in The Dreamer, filmed at the Lincoln Theatre in his hometown of Washington, D.C., have caused controversy.
Chapelle’s transgender and LGBTQ+ jokes in The Closer prompted 100 Netflix employees to walkout and protest. Chapelle also discusses the Will Smith-Chris Rock Oscars slap and an onstage attack at one of his gigs in The Dreamer.
7. The Brothers Sun season 1 (2024)
Michelle Yeoh kicks butt in The Brothers Sun, a crime comedy series, a year after her Oscar triumph for Everything Everywhere All at Once. After the assassination of a powerful Taiwanese gangster, Charles Sun (Justin Chien) flees to Los Angeles to safeguard his family, Eileen “Mama” Sun (Yeoh) and Bruce Sun (Sam Song Li).
Bruce didn’t know he had a brother until his mother sent him to California for protection. With his father gone, Taiwianese criminals are following Charles. Charles, Mama Sun, and a reluctant Bruce must face their criminal past and fight back to save the family before their adversaries return.
6. Boy Swallows Universe (2024)
Netflix adapts Trent Dalton’s famous novel Boy Swallow Universe. Teenager Eli Bell (Felix Cameron and Zac Burgess) had a tough upbringing in Brisbane. Lyle (Travis Fimmel), Eli’s stepfather, sells heroin, and Frankie (Phoebe Tonkin), his mother, is addicted. Eli’s older brother Gus (Lee Tiger Halley) is mute. Slim Halliday (Bryan Brown), Eli’s babysitter, served 25 years in prison.
Eli often gets into trouble at school due to family issues. Eli enters the local drug world to prevent his mother from relapsing when he learns Lyle is peddling heroin again. Eli does all this while trying to define decent manhood.
5. Detective Forst season 1 (2024)
Polish-language crime series Detective Forst will dominate your Netflix feed next. In the six-episode thriller, Borys Szyc plays Wiktor Forst, an unconventional detective who often argues with his superiors. Forst has a track record of case resolution. These unconventional methods will be used to investigate a terrible Tatra Mountain homicide.
After fighting with his superiors, Forst is let go. Forst and journalist Olga Szrebska (Zuzanna Saporznikow) must solve the case outside the law to find the serial killer who leaves gold coins in his victims’ lips.
4. Loudermilk season 1 (2017)
Detective Forst, a Polish-language crime show, is the next big mystery show on Netflix. Borys Szyc plays Wiktor Forst, an unconventional detective whose methods often get him in trouble with his bosses, in the six-episode thriller. Still, Forst has a history of solving cases. To solve a brutal murder in the Tatra Mountains, these out-of-the-box ideas will be put to the test.
Forst is taken off the case because he got into a fight with his superiors. Forst teams up with writer Olga Szrebska (Zuzanna Saporznikow) to find the serial killer who leaves gold coins in the mouths of his victims. They have to solve the case without following the law.
3. Dusty Slay: Workin’ Man (2024)
Netflix remains the top stand-up comedy destination. Dusty Slay is a rising comedian discovered by the streaming service. Dusty Slay: Workin’ Man is the Alabama-born comedian’s debut Netflix stand-up special.
Slay envisions being your funny best buddy. Slay’s show is sympathetic and entertaining, with gags on smoking and hipster coffee
2. Fool Me Once (2024)
Harlan Coben’s mystery and thriller adaptations, including British TV programs The Stranger and Stay Close, are taking over Netflix. The murder thriller Fool Me Once, starring Richard Armitage as shot-dead husband Joe Burkett, is Coben’s newest. Two weeks later, Joe’s wife, Maya Stern (Michelle Keegan), observes him playing with their daughter on the nanny cam.
Was Joe murdered or was there a massive conspiracy? Maya’s niece and nephew, Abby (Danya Griver) and Daniel (Daniel Burt), investigate Clair (Natalie Anderson)’s murder, which may be linked to Joe’s sudden death.
1. American Nightmare season 1 (2024)
Netflix’s next true crime obsession is American Nightmare. An intruder woke Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn at night in 2015. Two told police they were drugged and bound. The intruder kidnapped and raped Denise, then demanded payment. She was found days later in her hometown. The police initially charged Aaron with murder, but Denise revealed it was a hoax. The media called it “The Gone Girl Kidnapping” after Gillian Flynn’s novel.
Denise and Aaron never gave up, and when a suspect is found, they pursue justice. This fascinating three-part docuseries interviews Denise, Aaron, and the authorities who hunted the abductor.