The fourth and final season of Netflix ‘s high-profile comic-book series “ The Umbrella Academy ” had an underwhelming debut, failing to top Netflix’s Top 10 list in its first week of availability. To be clear it made the list at number 2, but it could not overcome the second week for “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.” Both series tallied a rounded 8.
4 million views last week, which is low — but not unheard of — for top-ranking Netflix shows. It was the number 3 English-language series that reminds us Netflix was a bit of an afterthought streamer these past few weeks. “Simon Biles Rising: Season 1” ranked third for both of the past two weeks on Netflix, while Simone Biles herself was busy ranking first and second over on Peacock.
The docuseries has spent four weeks on the Top 10, even with Olympic gymnastics long in the rearview, bringing in another 3.7 million views. This week’s Top 10 also saw the arrival of “Love Is Blind: UK: Season 1” at #4 and the 10th season of kids’ series “Gabby’s Dollhouse” at #5.
Netflix’s Top 10 list reveal on Tuesday showed that “The Umbrella Academy,” Steve Blackman’s genre-mashup of a series that hit Netflix on August 8, was viewed 8.4 million times for a total of 47.5 million viewing hours.
That was good enough for #2 during the week of Aug. 5, just barely behind the first season of the new series “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” which also had 8.4 million views but on fewer total hours.
For comp.