The 10 most popular series on Netflix this week: October 2025
Every week, new releases compete with old favourites for that top spot in Netflix‘s Top 10 charts, which has once again turned into a pretty accurate reflection of what the world is talking about.
You probably have heard someone mention at least half of these titles at work or in the group chat, but what makes the October roster so interesting this week is that the top spot is occupied for the second week running by Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the latest entry in Ryan Murphy’s true-crime anthology universe. It has been dominating every corner of the internet since it dropped, because once you start, it is hard to look away from its unsettling mix of biography and horror.
Flipping the script right behind it in second place is Is It Cake? Halloween, the show that’s basically Netflix telling you that it’s time to get spooky with it. The baking competition with a Halloween spin is the perfect light-hearted antidote to the darker content looming high on the charts.
Third place belongs to Victoria Beckham: Limited Series, which can be called one of the platform’s sleekest documentaries of the year. The series takes you back in the layers of fame, fashion, and family with more honesty than one would be inclined to expect from Posh Spice. Its bronze-medal position suggests that while people came for the Spice Girl nostalgia, they stayed the course for Victoria’s candid reflections on her career and marriage.
On the other end, the list saw Wayward drop down to number four from the pinnacle position, thanks to Ryan Murphy’s endless repertoire of bloody tales. However, fans are still discovering it and loving the storytelling and haunting atmosphere. It’s one of those shows that doesn’t make a lot of noise online but keeps trending because everyone who finishes it tells someone else to watch.
Sliding into fifth is True Haunting, which couldn’t have picked a better month to debut. Based on a real case, it follows a family’s terrifying experiences during a live exorcism that viewers are calling one of Netflix’s creepiest releases in years. At sixth place is Boots, also a new drama that’s gaining momentum through word of mouth. It’s an emotional snot-fest about a closeted gay teen joining the Marine Corps with his best friend in the 1990s, when the homophobia could have you jailed, especially in the military. What ensues is an all-too-real story of a group of men learning and unlearning, and taking chances in the hopes of triggering self-acceptance amidst the threat of a landscape of bombs. With audiences choking back as many tears as gasps, it’s clear to see why it’s climbing higher up the charts week by week.
Love Is Blind season nine has kept its vice-like grip going at number seven, reminding everyone that emotional whiplash is still excellent and spicy entertainment; meanwhile House of Guinness has broken into the eighth spot with a lavish period drama about the faces behind the titular dark beer set in 19th-century Dublin.
At number nine sits Raw, which might have slipped a few paces but has maintained its presence in the list as evidence that some viewers like their shows with several punches thrown in and a body slam for good measure.
Finally, descending steadily down the ladder to rounding out it out is Wednesday season two, which has returned just in time to deliver some much-needed costume inspirations for the season of trick or treating.
The 10 most popular series on Netflix this week:
- Monster: The Ed Gein Story (season one)
- Is It Cake? Halloween (season one)
- Victoria Beckham (limited series)
- Wayward (limited series)
- True Haunting (season one)
- Boots (season one)
- Love is Blind (season nine)
- House of Guinness (season one)
- Raw (October 6th, 2025)
- Wednesday (season two)