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Matthew Perry documentary opens at No. 1

Netflix says the three-part series drew 9.5 million views between October 26 and November 1.

By Dua Mifsud 2 min read AI-written

Netflix’s new Matthew Perry documentary entered its weekly rankings at the top of the English-language TV chart, a strong if unsurprising result for a title built around one of the most durable sitcom afterlives in streaming.

Deadline reported that The One About Matthew Perry logged 9.5 million views from October 26 to November 1, its first weekend of availability on the service. The outlet described the series as Netflix’s first in-depth documentary treatment of Perry.

The number matters because it turns memorial interest into a measurable programming win. Perry remains inseparable from Friends, and streamers understand that grief, nostalgia and library-era fame can still move audiences at scale when repackaged as an event. A three-part documentary is also a familiar Netflix format: serious enough to feel definitive, compact enough to binge before the algorithm changes clothes.

Deadline also reported that Lupin Part 4 led all series overall in the same tracking period, a reminder that Netflix’s weekly charts are no longer an English-only vanity mirror. The Matthew Perry result is big, but it arrived inside a ranking week where non-English programming was commanding attention too.

What Netflix has, in other words, is not just a hit documentary. It has proof that legacy celebrity, when framed as prestige nonfiction, still converts.

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Dua Mifsud Culture, Fashion & Gen Z Editor

Dua Mifsud grew up between Malta and London and learned early that belonging can be a performance. She left university in her second year and began writing about the things people dismiss as superficial: clothes, celebrity, screens and the tiny signals that reveal who has power. Her brother is the only person she trusts without qualification. Dua reads fashion as language and pop culture as evidence. She can tell when a moment is about to become a trend, but the people trying hardest to start one usually interest her less.

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