Exploring the thousands of titles on Netflix can be both exciting and overwhelming. Content of all types abounds, from dramas and comedies to reality shows and documentaries. It’s a good thing there’s a list to help narrow your decision by letting you see the most popular Netflix shows. Every week, Netflix releases its list of the 10 most-watched TV shows over a recent seven-day period.
Ransom Canyon, Netflix’s version of a romantic Yellowstone, rose to No. 1 this past week. Black Mirror season 7 remains in the top three and should continue to attract a dedicated audience. Finally, the Raw before WrestleMania generated enough viewers to move to No. 3. Below, we have listed the top 10 shows in the U.S. from April 17 to 23, along with general information about each show, including genre, rating, cast, and synopsis.
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10. North of North season 1 (2025)
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7.7/10Head to the Ice Cove in the charming comedy North of North. In the fictional Arctic town in Nunavut, Siaja (Anna Lambe) is a young Inuk woman who finds herself in a rut. Siaja married Ting (Kelly William), the town’s most famous son, straight out of high school and had a daughter, Bun (Keira Cooper). However, Siaja finds herself at an interesting place in her life. She wants to end her marriage, but it won’t be easy in a small town where everyone gossips. North of North shows it’s never too late to start again and find your purpose.
9. Love on the Spectrum season 3 (2022)
Love on the Spectrum returns for a third season with some old and new faces looking for romance. The series focuses on individuals on the autism spectrum as they try to find love and navigate relationships with their significant others.
It’s one of the most endearing shows offered by Netflix. Helping individuals in their dating lives is neurodiversity expert and author Jennifer Cook. Love on the Spectrum remains a heartfelt series about love and how it knows no bounds.
8. Ms. Rachel season 1 (2025)
Rachel Accurso, a.k.a. Ms. Rachel, is one of the most popular YouTube personalities for educational learning. Ms. Rachel is best known for creating a children’s music series that educates kids on seminal topics, like reading, writing, and arithmetic. Ms. Rachel brings her YouTube series to Netflix for a four-episode season.
Titled Ms. Rachel, the series will take what worked in the YouTube videos to Netflix, providing parents with excellent content for their “littles.” The four episodes released include Learn to Talk, Baby Learning, Learn to Read, and Hop Little Bunnies. This isn’t the end for Ms. Rachel on Netflix, as more episodes will stream later this year.
7. Young Sheldon season 7 (2017)
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7.7/10Sheldon Cooper became famous as a character on The Big Bang Theory. Before he became a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, Sheldon (Ian Armitage) was a child prodigy in Texas in Young Sheldon.
The series begins when Sheldon attends high school at age 9. Though he means well, Sheldon’s genius offends people, especially his older peers. Season 7 begins in the tornado’s aftermath, with Sheldon and Mary (Zoe Perry) in Germany. Fans of The Big Bang Theory will appreciate Sheldon’s origin story in this coming-of-age tale.
6. The Gardener (2025)
6.3/10If you’re looking for a show about growing plants, you won’t find that in The Gardener. Elmer (Álvaro Rico) works at a garden for his domineering mother (Cecilia Suárez). When Elmer was a child, a car accident stripped him of the ability to feel emotions. Without feelings, Elmer is the perfect employee for his mother, who uses the garden as a front for a murder-for-hire business.
Void of emotion, Elmer becomes the perfect killer. After meeting Violeta (Catalina Sopelana), a kind preschool teacher he’s supposed to kill, things change. Elmer falls in love, and his emotions start coming back. His mother can’t lose her top employee, so she’ll do anything to kill Violeta.
5. The Glass Dome (2025)
6.6/10Abduction is front and center in the Nordic noir, The Glass Dome. Lejla (Vincent) is a criminologist who returns to Sweden after the death of her adoptive mother. When she was a girl, Lejla was abducted by an unknown perpetrator. This incident has always stayed with Lejla, struggling to cope with the experience as an adult.
In the present day, Lejla is asked to work a case to find another child who was abducted. Lejla must face her own demons and fears if she wants to have any chance of finding this girl.
4. Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing season 1 (2025)
6.7/10In today’s social media generation, many kids want to grow up and become YouTube stars. One of those kids was Piper Rockelle, who started posting on social media at 8. Piper’s social media following began growing as she started to post more videos. Then, Piper teamed with a group of teen influencers to form The Squad, a supergroup of content creators led by Piper’s mother, Tiffany Smith.
The Squad eventually crumbled when several parents complained about Tiffany’s abusive behavior on and off the camera. Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing shows the dangers young content creators face, especially when controlling adults get involved.
3. Raw: April 14, 2025 (2025)
It was the final Raw before WrestleMania, and tensions were high when Gunther and Jey Uso hit the ring. Gunther promised to continue his reign as the World Heavyweight Champion, while Jey Uso vowed to defeat the champ and turn WrestleMania into “YeetMania.” In the show’s final segment, Seth Rollins stood tall to close the show after leveling CM Punk and Roman Reigns. Rollins enters Saturday night’s main event with all the momentum. Elsewhere, the Judgement Day brawled with Bron Breakker and Penta days before their fatal four-way match for the Intercontinental Championship.
2. Black Mirror season 7 (2011)
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8.7/10Charlie Brooker’s nightmares and ethical dilemmas in Black Mirror season 7. The new batch of episodes contains six episodes, including Common People, where a husband takes desperate measures to keep his wife alive; Hotel Reverie, an adventure featuring a Hollywood actor being thrown into a remake of an old-school romance movie; and Eulogy, a meditation about grief as a man is forced to reexamine previous heartbreak.
The episode that will generate the most headlines is USS Callister: Into Infinity. The 90-minute special is a sequel to season 4’s USS Callister. Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti) and the surviving crew must remain alive when the game expands to millions of other players.
1. Ransom Canyon (2025)
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6.8/10Love, loss, and loyalty head to Texas in Ransom Canyon, a Western combining elements of Yellowstone with romance. Josh Duhamel stars as Staten Kirkland, the owner of the Double K Ranch who continues to grieve the loss of his wife. Staten finds himself in a battle with other ranching families over control of the land.
The only thing keeping Staten sane during this time is Quinn O’Grady (Kelly), his longtime friend and owner of the local dancehall. While they are friends, there might be a brewing attraction between Staten and Quinn. Can Staten save the ranch and win the heart of the woman he loves, or will he have to make a choice?
