The 10 most popular series on Netflix this week: August 2026
Huh, would you look at that! My Life With the Walter Boys is finally on top, finally.
Surprisingly, season three actually pulled slightly fewer views than it did the week before, yet up it goes. Clearly, viewers aren’t ready to leave Silver Falls behind, and Netflix isn’t either… That’s because season four is already happening!
With all that love-triangle drama, we jump straight to the enemy territory. Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes season one follows Walter Boys, and this isn’t your basic true-crime recap of an ancient killer.
The three-part docuseries includes recordings from 137 prison phone calls made during Manson’s final years… And they have never been heard before, either. Creepy, right?
Following another famous murder documentary, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare season one has slipped from the top spot to third. The documentary revisits the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students through interviews, messages and even bodycam footage. True-crime obsession knows no bounds after all.
Again, the emotional rollercoaster of viewers dips, and a romantic period drama enters the list. Yes, the newly released My Brilliant Career season one takes fourth place. We have a lady stuck choosing between love and her career; guess her pick!
And then comes José Mourinho and shows that sports fans also hold power on Netflix. MOURINHO season one takes fifth place, with Frank Lampard, John Terry and Sir Alex Ferguson among the familiar faces appearing. Decades of football, and just Mourinho being Mourinho? Come on, even non-sports fans are intrigued.
At number six is The Bombing of Pan Am 103, followed by Harlan Coben’s I Will Find You in seventh, which finally stepped down from the top five.
WWE elbows its way into eighth with Raw: 2026 – August 10, 2026. Tires, season three, follows in ninth, while Camp CrunchLabs, season one, ends the list with its number ten position. Nothing special, just the regular weird mix of series.
The 10 most popular series on Netflix this week:
- My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 3
- Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes: Season 1
- The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare: Season 1
- My Brilliant Career: Season 1
- MOURINHO: Season 1
- The Bombing of Pan Am 103: Limited Series
- I Will Find You: Limited Series
- Raw: 2026 – August 10, 2026
- Tires: Season 3
- Camp CrunchLabs: Season 1