‘The Mother’ Scores Netflix’s Biggest Opening Weekend for Film in 2023 as ‘Queen Charlotte’ Continues to Lead English-Language TV Charts

Jennifer Lopez hits another high note with her latest film as The Mother becomes Netflixs biggest opening for a film in 2023, so far. The action-thriller scored 83.71 million hours viewed during the May 8-14 viewing window and was No. 1 in 82 countries with nearly 43 million views (Netflix calculates views by dividing the total hours viewed by the total runtime, which is 1.96 hours). The film premiered on the service on May 12.

On the TV side, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story continued its reign in the No. 1 spot on the English TV List with 158.68 million hours viewed and appeared in the Top 10 in 91 countries. That puts the shows total views at 307 million total hours viewed. With its six episodes, the series quickly racked up more than 47 million views (307 million hours viewed divided by 6.49 runtime hours) since its May 4 release. Seasons 1 and 2 of Bridgerton also re-entered the list with 23.88M hours viewed and 17.25M hours viewed, respectively.

Season 2 of Firefly Lane remains in the top 5, with 31.9 million hours viewed. In its eighth week on the list, the series landed at No. 2. The sophomore installment returned to the chart during the April 24-30 viewing window after Netflix released the second half of the dramas final season.

The season overtook Season 2 of Sweet Tooth, which landed in third this week with 27.61 million hours viewed. Season 1 of the fantasy series also remained on the list, falling to tenth place on the chart with 11.01 million hours viewed.

Queen Cleopatra garnered 20.8 million hours viewed upon its May 10 debut, pushing the series to seventh on the list between the political thrillers The Night Agent and The Diplomat (the shows both pulled 20.34 and 18.37 million hours viewed, respectively). In the second season of Jada Pinkett Smiths African Queens series, the docudrama tells the complicated story of Queen Cleopatra and her notorious love life.

Elsewhere on the chart is Missing: Dead or Alive? with 23.95 million hours viewed.

See Netflixs Top 10 lists for the week of May 8-14 below, beginning with English-language series and followed by non-English-language TV shows, English-language movies and then non-English-language movies.