A new Guy Ritchie gangster romp, a live-action adaptation of a beloved animated series, and a new docuseries about the so-called troubled teen industry. What do they all have in common? They’re among the biggest Netflix shows in the world right now, based on the latest data from the streamer’s regularly updated global Top 10 chart. It’s a ranking dominated, this week, by the debut of Ritchie’s new The Gentleman, an eight-episode series starring Theo James and inspired by Ritchie’s 2019 feature film of the same name.
As for the rest of the hottest Netflix shows in the world, the latest list is rounded out by other new and new-ish Netflix releases like the British drama One Day, a new season of Love is Blind, and shocking new Netflix docuseries like American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. And as we do each week, we’ll take a closer look at all of it below.
Netflix Top 10 shows (March 4-March 10)
This latest ranking represents the top 10 (English-language) Netflix shows in the world right now.
To learn more about some of the top series below, you can go deeper by checking out our coverage of several of the Netflix originals on this list, from the new docuseries The Program to Love is Blind — the latter of which is the subject of a great recent piece in The Wall Street Journal (titled “How ‘Love Is Blind’ Helped Netflix Crack the Reality-TV Code”) that I highly recommend.
For now, this week’s complete Top 10 includes:
- The Gentlemen (Season 1) — 12.2 million views
- Avatar: The Last Airbender — 9.1 million views
- The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping — 7.1 million views
- Hot Wheels Let’s Race (Season 1) — 4 million views
- Love is Blind (Season 6) — 3.4 million views
- One Day — 3.1 million views
- American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders — 2.4 million views
- Blood & Water (Season 4) — 2.2 million views
- Resident Alien (Season 1) — 2.1 million views
- The Tourist (Season 2) — 2 million views
Next, let’s zero in on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world this week.
The Gentlemen — #1 on Netflix
Making its debut on Netflix’s global Top 10 chart this week is Ritchie’s aforementioned The Gentlemen, in which James plays Eddie Horniman, the Duke of Halstead who’s also the estranged son of an English aristocrat.
As I noted in a separate post, we watch Guy Ritchie movies, and in this case a Guy Ritchie TV series, not to learn some profound truth about the world but to be thoroughly and deliriously entertained in true lock, stock, and smoking barrels fashion. And we very much get that here, in Ritchie’s Netflix series that sees James as an aristocrat who gets caught up in a world of criminality — specifically, in a kingpin’s cannabis empire based in London.
Continues Theo James in a Netflix promotional interview about the series, which is currently on the global Top 10 in 90 countries: “Eddie comes back to his family seat after being away for a long time in the army and has to dig his family out of this hole of criminality that his father has got them into.
“Although he’s the second son — ‘the spare’ — his father has disinherited Freddy, the eldest son, and left it all to him. In the aftermath, Eddie discovers that the family is indebted to one of the biggest criminal organizations in the UK and his father has been financing the estate by allowing a thriving cannabis farm to operate in a secret underground bunker on his land. He needs to pull the family out of the mess that his father has left, but doing so means, basically, falling into the hands of the devil.”