The three-week run that Netflix’s alien invasion series 3 Body Problem had enjoyed as the streamer’s biggest TV show in the world has now come to an end.
The show spent five weeks on the Netflix weekly Top 10 chart, and it’s finally been dethroned by the unlikeliest of series. The new #1 Netflix show in the world is Baby Reindeer, an oddly titled drama based on real-life events about a woman who stalks a struggling British comedian. Making this show all the more unusual is the fact that the comedian who was the target of the stalking — he created and actually stars in this show about that painful period in his past.
We’ll take a closer look at this one as well as the rest of the shows on this week’s Netflix Top 10 list below.
Netflix Top 10 shows (April 15-April 21)
To learn more about some of the top series, you can also go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of several of the Netflix originals on this list, from the Guy Ritchie gangster romp The Gentlemen to an eye-opening docuseries about life behind bars, as well as 3 Body Problem — Netflix’s ambitious, sprawling adaptation of one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time.
This week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix includes:
- Baby Reindeer — 13.3 million views
- Unlocked: A Jailhouse Experiment (Season 1) — 5 million views
- 3 Body Problem (Season 1) — 3.2 million views
- Our Living World — 3.2 million views
- Heartbreak High (Season 2) — 2.9 million views
- The Gentlemen (Season 1) — 2.9 million views
- Bad Dinosaurs (Season 1) — 2.3 million views
- Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer — 2.3 million views
- The Circle (Season 6) — 2 million views
- CoComelon Lane (Season 1) — 1.5 million views
Next, let’s zero in on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world this week.
Baby Reindeer — #1 on Netflix
Debuting with a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Richard Gadd’s Baby Reindeer is currently a Top 10 Netflix show in 89 countries. In it, Gadd gives viewers a bravura performance that continues his tradition of dealing with the trauma in his life by staging and performing it for audiences.
He did that previously, for example, in Monkey See Monkey Do — a play in which he addressed the sexual abuse he suffered when he first got into the entertainment industry. He’s done it again with the seven-episode Baby Reindeer, a dark and heartbreaking psychological drama based on the real-life woman who harassed him for years.
“In the height of it all, I would go to bed at night and still hear her in my ears,” Gadd explains in Netflix’s promotional material for Baby Reindeer. “Her voice swirling around my head. Her words leaping around my eyelids as I tried to sleep. Sometimes it was like she was there in the room with me. In the bed beside me, even.”
