For the second week in a row, one of the unlikeliest dramas is dominating the weekly Netflix Top 10 chart.
That show 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. And we’ll take a closer look at it below, as well as the rest of the shows on this week’s Netflix Top 10 list, covering the biggest shows in the world right now.
Netflix updates this chart every Tuesday, covering the prior week’s streaming data.
Netflix Top 10 shows (April 22-April 28)
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 — 22 million views
- Dead Boy Detectives (Season 1) — 3.1 million views
- Unlocked: A Jail Experiment (Season 1) — 2.5 million views
- CoComelon Lane (Season 2) — 2.3 million views
- The Gentlemen (Season 1) — 2.3 million views
- 3 Body Problem (Season 1) — 2.2 million views
- Our Living World — 1.9 million views
- The Circle (Season 6) — 1.8 million views
- Heartbreak High (Season 2) — 1.8 million views
- Bad Dinosaurs (Season 1) — 1.6 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 92 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. And not only is this show about the woman who stalked him; her actions also force him to confront long-buried trauma.
“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.”
