The most acclaimed Netflix feature taking center stage on the platform this week is *The Waterfront*, a Southern crime drama set in an imagined small town where the Buckley family’s fishing enterprise has crumbled — leading them to engage in drug trafficking. Conceptualized by creator Kevin Williamson, the series plunges into a turbulent realm of familial secrets, treachery, and survival along a dwindling North Carolina coastline.
Netflix releases its rankings of the top-rated TV shows weekly, and we’ll examine *The Waterfront* (featuring actors Holt McCallany and Melissa Benoist) below, along with other trending content on the service currently.
## Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s detailed list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, derived from the most recent data provided by the company:
1. **The Waterfront** — 8.3 million views
2. **Ginny & Georgia (Season 3)** — 8.1 million views
3. **The Survivors** — 3.4 million views
4. **Dept. Q** — 3.4 million views
5. **America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (Season 2)** — 3.3 million views
6. **Sirens** — 3.3 million views
7. **FUBAR (Season 2)** — 3.3 million views
8. **Ginny & Georgia (Season 1)** — 2.7 million views
9. **Raw: 2025 (June 16, 2025)** — 2.7 million views
10. **Ginny & Georgia (Season 2)** — 2.7 million views
To discover more about some of this week’s most-viewed series, you can delve deeper by exploring our prior coverage of some Netflix originals listed above, including *Dept. Q*, which serves as a detective drama that’s likely to attract *Slow Horses* enthusiasts, and *Sirens*. For the moment, however, let’s concentrate on the leading Netflix TV release globally right now.
## The Waterfront — #1 on Netflix
The current top-rated Netflix title worldwide by viewership, *The Waterfront* is leading the rankings in 10 countries this week. It’s also one of those unique titles on the streaming platform where critics and viewers largely agree (70% critics’ and 69% audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively).
From a plot perspective, this show chronicles a family that has governed Havenport, North Carolina, for years. Its reach extends broadly from the local restaurant culture to the fishing sector in the region. As family head Harlan Buckley (McCallany) recuperates from a couple of heart attacks, the family’s fishing ventures begin to falter — while Harlan’s wife Belle (Maria Bello) and son Cane (Jake Weary) start to, shall we say, become a little inventive in their efforts to maintain the family’s accustomed way of life.
Then there’s daughter Bree (Benoist), who is recovering from addiction and has lost custody of her child. She is currently in a complicated relationship that jeopardizes her family’s entire future.
“This is about a working man who’s striving to provide for his family,” Williamson tells Netflix’s Tudum. “They’ve lifted themselves from nothing and they’ve created this small fishing empire in their little town. Now it’s being gradually stripped away from them. They’ll go to any lengths to retain it, as it symbolizes their family.”
