For the week of February 2–8, 2026, Netflix’s Global Top 10 is dominated by Bridgerton Season 4 (Part 1), which pulled 23.4 million views in its second consecutive week at number one and appeared in the Top 10 across 91 countries. The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 debuted in the number two spot with 9 million views, while a German spy thriller called Unfamiliar topped the non-English charts with 4.9 million views, overtaking both Bridgerton and The Lincoln Lawyer on that side of the ledger. The English-language list rounds out with a mix of reality TV, true crime, legal drama, and professional wrestling — a genuinely strange cocktail that says something about how wide Netflix’s audience has become.
What makes this particular week notable is not just who sits at the top but how many slots a single franchise occupies. Three separate seasons of Bridgerton — Season 1, Season 3, and Season 4 — all appeared on the English Top 10 simultaneously, as viewers binged older episodes ahead of the anticipated Part 2 release. That kind of catalog lift is rare, and it shows the gravitational pull a tentpole series can have across a platform. Beyond the Bridgerton phenomenon, this week’s rankings offer a window into what genres are resonating globally and what that means for anyone trying to keep up with the conversation.
Table of Contents
- What Are the Biggest TV Shows on Netflix’s Global Top 10 This Week?
- Why Is Bridgerton Season 4 So Far Ahead of Everything Else?
- How Did The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 Perform in Its Debut?
- What Does the Non-English Top 10 Tell Us About Global Viewing Habits?
- Which Genres Are Dominating and Which Are Missing?
- What Can Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich’s Resurgence Tell Us?
- What to Expect in the Coming Weeks
- Frequently Asked Questions
What Are the Biggest TV Shows on Netflix’s Global Top 10 This Week?
The English-language Top 10 for the week of February 2–8, 2026, breaks down as follows: Bridgerton Season 4 (Part 1) leads with 23.4 million views, followed by The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 at 9 million views in its debut week, His & Hers at 6.2 million, Is It Cake? Valentines at 4.3 million, and Bridgerton Season 1 at 3.5 million. The bottom half includes Raw: 2026 (the February 2 episode of WWE programming), Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich at 3.1 million views, Bridgerton Season 3 at 3.0 million, Sullivan’s Crossing at 2.8 million, and Animal Kingdom also at 2.8 million. The gap between first and second place — roughly 14 million views — underscores just how far ahead Bridgerton is running compared to everything else on the platform right now. On the non-English side, the picture looks quite different. Unfamiliar, a six-part German spy thriller about former undercover operatives running a safe house, claimed the top spot with 4.9 million views.
South Korea’s Single’s Inferno Season 5 followed with 3.1 million views, while the French dramedy-heist series Cash Queens landed at number five with 1.3 million views. Unfamiliar’s 4.9 million views would have placed it fifth on the English-language chart – a reminder that non-English content can compete at scale when the premise is strong enough. The variety is wild. In any given week you might expect a couple of dramas and a reality show, but this particular list spans Regency romance, courtroom legal thrillers, professional wrestling, true crime documentary, dating competition, espionage fiction, and a baking show themed around Valentine’s Day. Netflix has long argued that its algorithm-driven model supports niche content by connecting it to the right viewers globally, and a Top 10 this eclectic at least suggests they are not wrong about the breadth of demand.
Why Is Bridgerton Season 4 So Far Ahead of Everything Else?
Bridgerton Season 4 debuted the prior week with a staggering 39.7 million views and appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries, making it one of Netflix’s biggest TV premieres of 2026. Even in its second week, it retained 23.4 million views — a decline, yes, but one that still left it more than double the next closest competitor. The Shondaland series has become one of Netflix’s most reliable global franchises, and each new season tends to generate a halo effect across earlier seasons as new and lapsed viewers catch up from the beginning. That halo effect is visible this week in concrete terms. Bridgerton Season 1 sits at number five with 3.5 million views and Season 3 at number eight with 3.0 million views. Combined with Season 4’s total, the franchise accounted for nearly 30 million views across three chart positions in a single week.
For Netflix, this kind of catalog reactivation is enormously valuable because it extracts additional viewership from content that has already been paid for and produced. However, if you are a competing show launching in the same window, this dynamic is brutal — Bridgerton’s gravitational pull sucks attention away from almost everything else trying to find an audience. Don’t read too much into the raw numbers, though. Netflix measures “views” as the total hours viewed divided by the runtime of the season, which means a short season with high engagement can appear to outperform a longer one even if total hours are similar. Bridgerton Season 4 (Part 1) benefits from being a focused, bingeable release rather than a weekly drip, and its numbers should be understood in that context. The metric is useful for comparing shows within the same reporting framework but is not directly equivalent to traditional television ratings or even other streamers’ measurement systems.
How Did The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 Perform in Its Debut?
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 arrived on Netflix during the week of February 2–8, 2026, and pulled 9 million views in its first week — a figure that, according to reporting from both Variety and Deadline, represents audience growth over the show‘s previous seasons. That trajectory is unusual for a Netflix original entering its fourth season, where viewership typically plateaus or declines as casual interest fades and only loyal fans remain. The fact that Mickey Haller’s latest outing expanded its audience suggests the show has built genuine word-of-mouth momentum over time rather than front-loading all its viewership into a premiere spike. The narrative hook this season is particularly compelling: Mickey Haller, the defense attorney protagonist based on Michael Connelly’s novels, is now on trial himself. That kind of role reversal — the defender becoming the defendant — gives the marketing team a clean, high-concept pitch that can attract viewers who may not have followed the legal procedural elements of earlier seasons.
It functions almost like a soft reboot in terms of accessibility, which likely contributed to the audience growth. For comparison, landing at number two globally in a week where Bridgerton Season 4 is still pulling 23.4 million views is a strong result by any measure. Whether The Lincoln Lawyer holds in the Top 10 over the next few weeks or follows the usual Netflix pattern of a steep second-week drop will say a lot. Legal dramas tend to have more sustained viewership curves than, say, reality competition shows, because viewers are invested in the resolution of a serialized case. But the competition for attention on the platform is fierce, and new releases will arrive to challenge its position.
What Does the Non-English Top 10 Tell Us About Global Viewing Habits?
The non-English chart this week is led by Unfamiliar, a German spy thriller that earned 4.9 million views and managed to outpace both Bridgerton and The Lincoln Lawyer on that specific ranking. The show’s premise — former undercover spies now operating a safe house — taps into the kind of taut, contained thriller format that travels well internationally regardless of language. Germany has been an increasingly productive market for Netflix originals, and Unfamiliar’s success adds to a growing list of German-language series that have broken through globally, following the trail blazed years ago by Dark. Single’s Inferno Season 5 at 3.1 million views continues South Korea’s dominance in the reality dating space on Netflix. The franchise has become a reliable performer, and its fifth season suggests the format has not yet exhausted audience interest.
Meanwhile, Cash Queens from France — a dramedy with heist elements — landed at number five with 1.3 million views, demonstrating that French-language content can find a global audience when it blends genres in an accessible way. The tradeoff for non-English content is always between depth of engagement in the home market and breadth of reach internationally. A show like Unfamiliar may pull fewer total views than Bridgerton, but its per-capita penetration in Germany and neighboring German-speaking markets is likely proportionally much higher. For Netflix, the strategic value of these titles is not just in raw viewership numbers but in subscriber retention across specific regions. A German subscriber who stays on the platform because of Unfamiliar is worth exactly as much as an American subscriber watching Bridgerton.
Which Genres Are Dominating and Which Are Missing?
This week’s Top 10 includes period romance (Bridgerton), legal thriller (The Lincoln Lawyer), unscripted reality (His & Hers, Is It Cake? Valentines, Single’s Inferno), professional wrestling (Raw: 2026), true crime documentary (Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich), family drama (Sullivan’s Crossing), crime drama (Animal Kingdom), spy thriller (Unfamiliar), and heist dramedy (Cash Queens). That is an unusually broad genre spread, and it reflects a viewing ecosystem where no single type of content has a monopoly on attention. What is notably absent, however, is science fiction and fantasy — genres that have historically driven some of Netflix’s biggest hits, from Stranger Things to The Witcher. The absence this particular week does not mean the genres are in decline on the platform, but it does highlight how dependent genre viewership is on release timing. Without a major sci-fi or fantasy premiere in this window, those viewers scatter across other categories or drift to competing platforms.
Similarly, there is no animated series on the list, despite Netflix’s heavy investment in the medium. Animation tends to have a steadier but lower-peaked viewership curve, often falling just outside Top 10 thresholds. A warning for anyone trying to draw sweeping conclusions from a single week’s data: the Top 10 is heavily influenced by release schedules, and Netflix strategically staggers its biggest premieres to avoid cannibalizing its own viewership. The genres present in any given week say more about what Netflix chose to release than about what audiences inherently prefer. A week with a major sci-fi drop would look dramatically different.
What Can Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich’s Resurgence Tell Us?
One of the more curious entries on this week’s list is Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich at number seven with 3.1 million views. The documentary series originally premiered in 2020, making its reappearance on the Top 10 six years later a clear indicator of a news-driven viewership spike. True crime content on Netflix has a well-documented pattern of surging back onto charts when related news events — court proceedings, new allegations, or media coverage — push the subject back into public consciousness.
This pattern is worth understanding for what it reveals about how Netflix’s catalog functions differently from traditional television. A show that aired once on a broadcast network in 2020 would be largely inaccessible to new viewers without active reruns. On Netflix, it sits permanently available, waiting for the next news cycle to drive a wave of curiosity. The platform essentially turns its back catalog into an evergreen resource that can be reactivated by external events with zero additional investment from Netflix.
What to Expect in the Coming Weeks
The biggest question hanging over the next several weeks is whether Bridgerton Season 4 can maintain its chart dominance as it moves further from its premiere window and as Part 2 approaches. Historically, Bridgerton seasons experience a significant viewership dip between parts before spiking again at the Part 2 premiere, creating a W-shaped curve. If that pattern holds, there will be a brief window where other series have a chance to claim the top spot before Bridgerton surges back.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4’s second-week performance will be a meaningful test of whether its audience growth is real and durable or just a first-week curiosity bump. On the non-English side, Unfamiliar’s ability to hold its position will signal whether the show has crossover staying power or was primarily driven by a strong debut in its home market. And as always, the next wave of new releases will reshuffle the deck entirely — which is what makes tracking these charts week to week genuinely interesting rather than just a numbers exercise.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Netflix calculate its Top 10 views?
Netflix measures views by dividing total hours viewed by the runtime of a season or film. This means a shorter series with intense binge viewing can register a higher view count than a longer one with comparable total hours, so the metric favors compact, bingeable releases.
How often does Netflix update its Global Top 10?
Netflix updates its Global Top 10 lists weekly, typically covering a Monday-through-Sunday reporting period. The data is published on its Tudum website and covers both English-language and non-English-language categories for TV and film separately.
Why are older shows like Bridgerton Season 1 appearing on the Top 10?
When a new season of a popular series premieres, it often drives a “halo effect” where viewers go back to watch or rewatch earlier seasons. Three Bridgerton seasons appeared simultaneously on this week’s chart as audiences caught up ahead of the anticipated Part 2 release.
Can non-English shows outperform English-language shows on Netflix?
Yes. This week, Unfamiliar — a German spy thriller — topped the non-English chart with 4.9 million views, which would have placed it fifth on the English-language chart. Series like Squid Game have previously demonstrated that non-English content can lead the overall global charts outright.
Why did Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich reappear on the Top 10 years after its original release?
True crime documentaries frequently resurge on Netflix’s charts when related news events renew public interest. The platform’s evergreen catalog means older titles can spike back into the Top 10 without any new investment from Netflix, driven purely by external news cycles.
