Lupin Part 4 Netflix ranking, Digi Mart USA News (France): Arsène Lupin, the character created by Maurice Leblanc, was a thief who relied on charm rather than force. After four parts, Assane Diop, played by Omar Sy, continues to prove that the formula still works.
The second week of the new season on Netflix offers further evidence, but the most notable detail lies in the country rankings rather than the overall chart.
Part 4 is now at the top of the platform in France, Germany, Brazil, Morocco, the Gulf countries, Guadeloupe and Réunion, while it is entirely absent from the American chart. The gap matters because the season did not peak on arrival.
It grew. Viewing rose during its second week, the number of countries where it holds the top spot roughly doubled, and the three earlier parts climbed back into the global rankings alongside it.
These figures come from Netflix’s Top 10 data for the week ending November 1. Lupin: Part 4 held the No. 1 position in the global non-English series ranking, with 10.8 million views and 65 million hours viewed.
It ranked No. 1 in 46 countries and appeared in the top 10 of 90 countries. No title in either of Netflix’s series rankings recorded more views that week, although the English-language leader, the documentary series The One About Matthew Perry, had 9.5 million.
The first week looked less impressive because it was short. The eight episodes were released on Friday, October 23, leaving only three days in a tracking week that ended Sunday, October 25.
In those three days the season totaled 6.4 million views, ranked No. 1 in 22 countries and entered the top 10 in 75 countries. After two weeks, it has accumulated 17.2 million views.
Then there is the back catalog. “Fans have also rewatched the earlier episodes of the critically acclaimed French series,” Netflix wrote on Tudum.
Part 1 ranked No. 2 with 5.2 million views, Part 2 ranked No. 6 with 3.2 million and Part 3 ranked No. 8 with 3 million. Four of the ten places in the non-English series ranking belong to a single series.
In France, as the price comparison site JeChange noted, all four parts had already charted in the launch week. Variety reported that the season was designed as a reboot to let newcomers follow the story.
The data does not show whether Part 1’s views come from new viewers or returning fans; either way, the new season has brought audiences back to the beginning.
Compared with its predecessor, the new season is a more modest success. Released on a Thursday in October 2023, Part 3 totaled 11.6 million views in its first four days and 14.1 million during its first full week.
Part 4’s first full week ended with 10.8 million views. According to JeChange, its launch pace was roughly a quarter lower than Part 3’s when adjusted for the number of days.
The sharpest difference is in the United States. In October 2023, Part 3 ranked No. 5 on the American series chart in each of its first two weeks.
Part 4 did not appear in the U.S. top 10 at all.
It ranks No. 4 in the United Kingdom and Canada, and No. 6 in Australia: English-speaking audiences are watching, but it has dropped off the American chart. It also does not appear in the top 10 in Japan or South Korea.
Elsewhere the rankings are consistent. Part 4 is No. 1 in Italy, Portugal and Romania, as well as France, Germany and Brazil; No. 2 in Spain, Poland and Turkey; No. 3 in Mexico, Sweden and Denmark; No. 4 in Norway; No. 5 in Vietnam; No. 6 in India; and No. 10 in Taiwan.
The premise partly explains this reach. As The Nightly summarizes, Assane is a Frenchman of Senegalese origin who devoured Leblanc’s books as a child and who, as an adult, adopted the identity of the gentleman burglar to seek justice from the wealthy family that had his father, Babakar, falsely accused decades earlier.
Sy has stated his ambition clearly. “We wanted first to have a French superhero and, of course, a Black superhero; that was very important to me,” he told the Australian outlet, adding that the show’s international success means “we can show that France is diverse.” He also said that in the Middle East, where the Arabic alphabet has no letter P, fans tell him how much they love “Lubin.” Part 4 ranks No. 1 in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan and Lebanon, as well as Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya: the rankings have caught up with the anecdote.
The season also marks a fresh start. The story jumps forward four years, a period during which Assane was in prison, and confronts him with an imitator who adopts his methods.
Sy told the French magazine Diverto that this new adversary “uses new technologies to fabricate lies and usurp the identity of Assane/Lupin,” with deepfakes and hacking in the mix: “It’s a bit of the old school versus the new.” Creator George Kay left the series after Part 3, and Sy now directs it with Louis Leterrier. He told Variety the season “moves a little further away from Maurice Leblanc.” That raises the question of legacy: a series built on a century-old work is moving away from it while still pointing viewers back to its own first chapter.
The reception is less unanimous than the rankings. Journal du Geek found Sy’s performance as the character still convincing and praised Théo Christine, who reprises the role of Raoul, but called the twists “fairly predictable” and felt the franchise was beginning to be stretched a little too far.
JeChange noted a contrast on Rotten Tomatoes: at the time of its article, all six critics were positive, while the audience score stood at 20% from about fifty ratings. Views still rose during the second week.
For Netflix, the useful figure is not the 46 countries but the four places. A season that brings viewers back to Parts 1 through 3 lets the whole series generate revenue again, which is the strongest argument for a Part 5.
Journal du Geek reports that the writers are working on a sequel, set up by the new season’s cliffhanger, although Netflix has not officially ordered it.
