Netflix Top 10s: ‘Monster: Lizzie Borden’ Holds Top Spot But Trails Prior Seasons as ‘Unabomber’ Movie Posts Middling Debut

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Welcome to your weekly breakdown of the biggest hits and misses on Netflix. This week, we’re taking a closer look at the global Top 10s for the week of September 21st to September 27th, 2026, and there is one clear overarching storyline: the current state of Ryan Murphy’s true-crime juggernaut.
We’ve also got to cover the debuts of A Different World and Unabomber plus a few international titles. A few no shows in the charts this week. Blood Legacy season 2 was nowhere to be found on the English list, but with 20 episodes, perhaps not all that surprising. The Thai series Delusion was notably absent from the Non-English charts, and Kevin Hart’s Cold as Balls missed the English TV list. 
Let’s dig into the other top 10 stories we’re tracking:

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story now trailing prior entries
With the caveat that prior seasons of Monster were all released on different days (Netflix’s top 10s covers Monday through Sunday), with Wednesday for DAHMER, Thursday for Lyle and Erik Menendez, Friday for Ed Gein, and back to Thursday again for Lizzie Borden, the first full week should give Lizzie Borden a boost, given that there were fewer days to consume the new season in the opening week. However, that’s not been the case here. Viewing hours were up 20%, but ultimately the series is dragging behind all prior entries. 
The direct comparison here is Lyle and Erik Menendez, where Lizzie Borden is only down ~15% in views, so it’s not a disaster drop by any means. The only caveat is that Lizzie Borden’s episode count is slightly down, from 9 to 8, which should help that series given its lower runtime and how views are calculated. 

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Weekly views for 4 Netflix titles: DAHMER, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Monsters – The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story. Combined total across all titles and weeks: 146,900,000 views.

Per-week Netflix views for DAHMER, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Monsters – The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story across 2 weeks.

Title
Week 1
Week 2
Total

DAHMER
22,000,000
33,600,000
55,600,000

Monster: The Ed Gein Story
12,200,000
20,700,000
32,900,000

Monsters – The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
12,300,000
19,500,000
31,800,000

Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
12,100,000
14,500,000
26,600,000

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