Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer scored its best premiere week so far and led the streaming charts for Feb. 2-8. Overall streaming volume fell off some with the Super Bowl and the opening of the Winter Olympics competing for viewers.
The Lincoln Lawyer drew 2 billion minutes of viewing time for the week (its fourth season premiered Feb. 5), up 22 percent from the week of its season three debut in October 2024 and just shy of its highest total ever (2.03 billion minutes for the week after season three premiered). Nielsen says 81 percent of the show’s viewing time — about 1.62 billion minutes — was for the new season.
The previous week’s No. 1, Bridgerton, fell to second overall with 1.81 billion minutes of viewing. Fallout ended its second season with 1.01 billion viewing minutes on Prime Video (the finale debuted Feb. 3), a little off the prior week’s season high. The Pitt (940 million minutes) also declined some on HBO Max, ending a run of four consecutive weeks of series highs.
With the Olympics beginning Feb. 6 (to big ratings) and the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, time spent streaming fell about 15 percent week to week. The top 10 overall titles totaled 10.63 billion minutes of viewing, down from 12.51 million a week earlier.
Apple TV’s Shrinking made its first ever appearance on the charts a week after its season three premiere. The show totaled 332 million minutes of viewing, good for 10th place among original series. On the acquired series rankings, History Channel’s survival show Alone appeared for the first time since 2022 after rejoining the Netflix queue (it also streams on Hulu and Pluto TV).
Nielsen’s streaming ratings cover viewing on TV sets only and don’t include minutes watched on computers or mobile devices. The ratings only measure U.S. audiences. The top streaming titles for Feb. 2-8, 2026, are below.
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