Nobody Wants This is still the comedy to beat on Netflix, even with a smaller crowd than before. Season 3 of the Kristen Bell and Adam Brody rom-com drew 6.2 million views in its first four days after dropping on October 22, according to Netflix’s weekly Top 10 data reported by TheWrap and Deadline. That figure is down about 28 percent from Season 2’s 8.6 million-view debut last October, and well below Season 1’s 10.3 million in 2024. Yet it still ranks as the biggest opening weekend for a returning scripted comedy on Netflix in 2026, a sign of both the show’s durability and the platform’s broader engagement challenges.
Second place, but still a hit
Season 3 placed No. 2 on Netflix’s English-language TV chart for October 19 to 25, behind the limited series Below, which pulled 7.7 million views in its third week. The new season ranked in the top 10 in 56 countries and reached No. 1 in 11 of them. Across the whole series, Nobody Wants This has landed in the global top 10 for 11 weeks and scored more than 120 million views since its 2024 debut.
A familiar streaming pattern
The season-to-season slide follows a pattern familiar to returning streaming shows: Season 1’s breakout, Season 2’s smaller return, Season 3’s still smaller one. But the launch also revived interest in earlier episodes, with viewing of Seasons 1 and 2 jumping nearly threefold over the prior week, according to TheWrap. Behind Nobody Wants This on the weekly chart were The Diplomat Season 4 with 5.5 million views and the limited series Tyson with 3.8 million. For Netflix, the message is mixed but clear: the audience for Joanne and Noah may be shrinking, but it remains the biggest returning comedy crowd the service has this year.
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