Netflix released its biannual viewership report Thursday alongside its earnings, with U.K. breakout hit “Adolescence” topping the TV side and action-comedy “Back in Action” starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz landing as the most-viewed movie on the service.
The latest Engagement Report covers about 99% of the viewing of what Netflix members watched from January through June 2025. Netflix measures engagement by views, which it calculates by total hours viewed divided by runtime.
More than one-third of all viewing came from non-English language titles, and 10 of the 25 most-watched series in the first half of the year were non-English, according to Netflix.
Leading the pack in TV: “Squid Game,” the South Korean hit series, which drew 231 million views across all three seasons in the first half of the year. Its final season became our third most-watched program of the half, reaching 72 million views in just four days. Overall, drama “Adolescence” was the No. 1 most-watched show with 145 million views; other top-performing U.K. series included “Missing You” (58 million views), “Black Mirror” Season 7 (31 million) and “Dept. Q” Season 1 (25 million).
In addition, WWE — which premiered on Netflix in January — generated more than 280 million view hours across all its events, including “WWE Raw.”
Netflix noted that nearly half of viewing for originals in the first half of 2025 came from titles that debuted in 2023 or earlier. Those included series “Orange Is the New Black,” “Ozark” and “Money Heist,” which each had over 100 million hours viewed in the first half of 2025, while movies “Red Notice,” “Leo” and “We Can Be Heroes” each had more than 20 million views.
Netflix films such as Back in Action (165M), Tyler Perry’s STRAW (103M), The Life List (96M) starring Sofia Carson, and Nonnas (58M) were widely watched. Non-English language films also found global success, including Exterritorial (88M) from Germany, Counterattack (71M) from Mexico, iHostage (57M) from the Netherlands, Ad Vitam (70M) and K.O. (44M) from France, Bullet Train Explosion (33M) from Japan and Jewel Thief – The Heist Begins (23M) from India.