‘Nobody wants this’ returns to top Netflix TV charts; ‘a house of dynamite’ leads film

Nobody Wants This returned to Netflix for its second season with more tales of love in Los Angeles.

The Adam Brody/Kristen Bell-led rom-com series topped the streamer’s latest TV charts with 8.6M views across its first four days. This was only slightly down on its first season’s opening numbers, which brought 10.3M views last year.

The second season continues to follow Brody and Bell’s Noah and Joanne as they deal with being in a relationship, while their siblings, played by Timothy Simons and Justine Lupe are figuring out how their own platonic relationship, while Lupe’s Morgan also dates her therapist, played by Succession’s Arian Moayed. Brody’s offscreen wife, Leighton Meester, Seth Rogen, and Kate Berlant also feature.

The launch of Season 2, also helped drive viewership for Season 1, which made it to number nine in the charts with 2M views across the week.

The Diplomat was number two in the charts with its third season driving 6.3M views in its second week and Boots was in third with 5.6M views. Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, WWE’s Raw, Wayward, the first season of The Diplomat and Baby Shark Hospital Play made up the rest of the TV list.

On the film side, Kathryn Bigelow’s explosive new thriller A House of Dynamite launched with 22.1M views in its first three days. This was roughly in line with other recent film launches such as The Woman in Cabin 10, which launched with 21.1M views in its first week.

A House of Dynamite depicts the immediate response to the deployment of a single unattributed nuclear missile and the approximately 18 minutes the upper echelons of the U.S. government have to react.

It stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee and Jason Clarke.

The Perfect Neighbor documentary was in second place with 20.2M views. The film primarily uses police bodycam footage to convey the escalating tension between a close-knit community and one outlier that sadly resulted in tragedy.

Source - DEADLINE