The most popular Netflix title dominating the platform this week is Sirens, a five-part Netflix drama that follows Devon — a woman trying to pull her sister away from the mysterious grip of her wealthy, high-society boss at a remote island estate. It’s a story about power, privilege, and the importance of family, as Devon’s search for the truth forces her to confront the seductive and dangerous dynamics shaping her sister’s new world.
Netflix publishes its ranking of the hottest TV shows each week, and we’ll take a closer look at Sirens (which stars Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy, and Milly Alcock) below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, based on the latest updated data from the company:
- Sirens — 16.7 million views
- American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — 10.7 million views
- Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story — 6 million views
- Bet: Season 1 — 5 million views
- Love, Death & Robots: Volume 4 — 3.4 million views
- The Four Seasons: Season 1 — 3.2 million views
- Forever: Season 1 — 3.2 million views
- She the People: Season 1 — 2.7 million views
- Raw: 2025: May 19, 2025 — 2.7 million views
- Ms. Rachel: Season 1 — 2.2 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals above, such as the newest season of Love, Death, & Robots. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
Sirens — #1 on Netflix
The current top-ranked Netflix title globally by viewership, Sirens is a #1 show in 44 countries this week.
“Set amid lavish mansions and seaside locales,” Netflix teases, the show from creator Molly Smith Metzler (Maid) has “proved to be the perfect cocktail to toast the unofficial start of summer.” Set over the course of a single Labor Day weekend, Sirens follows Fahy’s character Devon, a sharp, self-aware woman from Buffalo who arrives on a lavish private island convinced her younger sister Simone (played by House of the Dragon’s Alcock) is caught up in something cultish.
The object of Simone’s obsession is Michaela Kell, a mysterious and eerily regal socialite played by Moore, who floats through her Cliff House estate with the detached elegance of someone who’s forgotten what it’s like to be questioned. Devon arrives to stage a kind of emotional intervention, but she quickly finds herself outmaneuvered in a setting where surface-level civility masks something much more predatory. Think Succession meets Big Little Lies, but on a beach where the water sparkles and every compliment feels like a veiled threat.
“This story has a lot of teeth,” Smith Metzler said in a Netflix promotional interview. “There are real moments of drama, and it’s going to make people uncomfortable. Operatic is a word I like to use to describe it. It’s a true dark comedy — and it’s got a Greek mythology vibe.”
