Taken: Natalee Holloway is still Netflix’s number one series. The three-part true-crime documentary, which arrived on Netflix on November 4, held the top spot on the streamer’s US television chart into Monday, November 9, according to FlixPatrol data carried by StreamScope — and ScreenRant, writing on Sunday, November 8, said it “remains the streamer’s #1 most-watched series at the time of writing”.
The hold is the story. The series climbed to number one within two days of release, overtaking Lupin and The One About Matthew Perry, and it has stayed there through the weekend — a rare hold for a three-part documentary in a week when Netflix dropped new seasons of Black Doves and Love Is Blind’s reunion special. FlixPatrol’s title page shows it at number one in 37 countries, including the United States and Australia, with an average ranking of 2.3 across the markets it tracks.
A case America never forgot
The series revisits one of the most widely publicised missing-person cases in recent American history. On May 30, 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a high school graduation trip to Aruba and never came home. The documentary tells the story through her mother, Beth Holloway, and her twenty-year search for answers, with interviews with friends, her attorney, former investigators and retired FBI agents, according to Men’s Journal.
It comes from Story Syndicate, the team behind Titan: The Oceangate Disaster, and is directed by Dani Sloane and Matthew Galkin. The case took a decisive turn in 2023, when Joran van der Sloot, long connected to the investigation, admitted to killing Holloway. She was legally declared dead in January 2012.
True crime still rules the chart
The rest of the November 6 daily chart showed how crowded Netflix is right now: A Couple of Lies second, Lupin third, Dead-End Job fourth and Black Doves fifth, with Nobody Wants This, Doctor X: Mafia in White and other titles filling out the ten, according to ComingSoon. By Monday, From had climbed to third in the US chart, according to StreamScope.
Taken’s rise fits a pattern Netflix has ridden all year: a three-part true-crime series, released midweek, finding a huge audience by the weekend — and this time, holding it into the next week. Netflix’s official weekly Top 10 for November 2–8 is published on Tuesday, November 10, and will give the first official views figure for the series. Until then, the daily chart tells its own story: a twenty-year-old mystery is still the biggest show on television.
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