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    People We Meet on Vacation Takes a Trip to No.1 in This Week’s Top 10

    Plus: Stranger Things 5 moves up the Most Popular list, and viewers uncover His & Hers’ secrets.
    By Ananda Dillon and Ashley Lee
    Jan. 13, 2026

People We Meet On Vacation took viewers on a journey as it reached No. 1 on the English film list with 17.2 million views last week. Based on Emily Henry’s 2021 best-selling novel of the same name — which returned to the New York Times Best Seller list and the Amazon Book Charts in anticipation of the film’s release — the rom-com is about free-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth), who maintain their unlikely friendship through yearly summer vacations and begin to wonder if their friendship could translate into a lasting love. 

In addition to a will they, won’t they romance, viewers were sucked into the he said, she said intrigue of His & Hers, putting the thriller series at No. 1 on the English TV list with 19.9 million views. Tessa Thompson plays Anna, a reporter who’s estranged from her husband, Jack, a detective played by Jon Bernthal. They’re reunited by a murder in their sleepy Georgia town: She’s reporting on the crime and he’s investigating it, but both think the other is a prime suspect, leading to a jaw-dropping conclusion. 

Speaking of conclusions, viewers continued to stream the final season of a beloved series, putting Stranger Things 5 at No. 3 on the list with 9.3 million views. The season also moved up to No. 6 on the Most Popular English TV list with 115 million views. All five seasons of the series remained in the Top 10 for a seventh week, with Season 1 at No. 4 (5 million views), Season 2 at No. 6 (4.5 million views), Season 3 at No. 7 (4.4 million views), and Season 4 at No. 8 (4.1 million). The documentary One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 is now streaming, providing an in-depth look behind the scenes of the epic final season.

At No. 2 on the English TV list, with 15.6 million views, was Run Away, which lured in Harlan Coben fans and mystery enthusiasts everywhere looking to discover where Paige (Ellie de Lange) disappeared to as her father, Simon (James Nesbitt), searches for clues. An escalating string of murders raises the stakes for Paige and her family.

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Viewers continued to be swept away by the rising waters of The Great Flood, putting the sci-fi disaster film at No. 1 on the non-English film list with 5.2 million views. In it, AI researcher Anna (Kim Da-mi) fights for the lives of her and her son as they seek safety from a global flood and accept the help of a mysterious man sent to retrieve her for dubious reasons. 

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story claimed the No. 2 spot on the English film list with 9.1 million views. The documentary from Skye Borgman (Unknown Number: The High School Catfish) zooms in on the Utah therapist whose child abuse arrest with parenting YouTuber Ruby Franke exposed a web of manipulation.

In addition to winning two Golden Globe Awards over the weekend, KPop Demon Hunters took No. 4 on the list with 7.6 million views.

The Swedish crime series Land of Sin, about the investigation into a murder in the Scandinavian countryside and its effects on a tight-knit rural community, rose to the top spot on the non-English TV list with 3.2 million views. The fourth season of Alpha Males, the heartwarming Spanish comedy series chronicling the lives of men in their 40s, debuted at No. 6 on the list with 2.1 million views.

Emily in Paris seized the No. 5 spot on the English TV list with 4.5 million views. The series, which recently launched a Rome-centric fifth season, has just been renewed for a sixth.

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