With the publicity machine behind Stranger Things starting to ramp up ahead of the final season, the show re-entered the Nielsen streaming charts in mid-October.
The series ranked eighth among original streaming shows for the week of Oct. 13-19, logging 393 million minutes of viewing time for the four currently available seasons. That week saw the reveal of running times for the final season’s first batch of episodes and a Time cover story that signaled the start of advance press for the series. Stranger Things hadn’t been on the Nielsen charts since late June, when it made the rankings for four weeks after Netflix announced the release schedule for season five.
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Monster: The Ed Gein Story held the No. 1 overall spot for a third straight week, though its 979 million minutes of viewing represented a 58 percent decline week to week. The former BBC/PBS series Poldark, which joined the Netflix catalog a week earlier, jumped into the rankings at second overall with 954 million minutes. Aidan Turner, who starred in Poldark, also plays a key role in season three of The Diplomat, which premiered Oct. 16 and came in fourth for the week with 911 million minutes.
Netflix’s coming-of-age drama Boots (798 million minutes) saw substantial growth in its second week, improving by 84 percent from the previous seven days. The streamer’s true-crime documentary The Perfect Neighbor also had 798 million viewing minutes, leading the movie rankings and (at least for this week) displacing KPop Demon Hunters from the top spot.
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences, not those in other countries. The top streaming titles for Oct. 13-19, 2025, are below.
