Yahoo Lifestyle True-Crime Makes A Strong Case In Netflix Data Dump; ‘The Menendez Brothers’ Leads List
Netflix has been digging heavily into true-crime over the last few years and it’s seemingly paying off.
In the streamer’s latest data dump – its What We Watched engagement report – there are a slew of true-crime series including American Murder: Laci Peterson, Worst Ex Ever, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey and This Is the Zodiac Speaking entering its top ten with The Menendez Brothers doc leading the list.
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The Menendez Brothers, the Alejandro Hartmann-directed doc, premiered after Ryan Murphy’s buzzy Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story series and scored 39.2M views.
American Murder: Laci Peterson topped the series list with 37.4M views. That series, which told the story of the murder of the American woman murdered by her husband while she was eight months pregnant. It is part of Netflix’s American Murder strand, which was just responsible for the Gabby Petito three-series that launched this month.
Worst Ex Ever romanced 26.1M, two-part doc Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter was watched by 25.1M, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey was watched by 21.7M, This Is the Zodiac Speaking entranced 18.4M and the second season of Worst Roommate Ever was watched by 14.5M.
True-crime adjacent series including Mr. McMahon wrestled 13.5M and Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam sang to 12.9M.
Elsewhere in unscripted, South Korean cooking competition series Culinary Class Wars made the top 100 with 17.2M, The Man with 1000 Kids fathered 15.9M fans.
Season seven of Love Is Blind, which launched in October, was watched by 14.4M.
These stats were released in Netflix’s What We Watched report for July to December 2024.
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