If the embed won’t play, MGM+’s season four teaser is also here on YouTube.
Ten days ago we noted that MGM+’s From had slipped out of its home streamer and into Netflix’s global Top 10. The official American figures have now caught up, and they are not shy. Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of 19th to 25th October puts From at No. 1 overall, with 1.649 billion minutes viewed across its 30 available episodes. That is the biggest weekly total for any acquired series so far in 2026, and it was enough to push Netflix’s own political thriller The Diplomat into second place, which is presumably the first time an ambassador has been outranked by a sheriff.
For anyone joining late, Harold Perrineau’s Boyd Stevens is the reluctant lawman of a small American town that swallows every car that drives into it. The residents spend their nights indoors behind talismans while smiling things from the woods knock politely at the windows. One-point-six-five billion minutes works out at roughly 3,100 years of collective viewing, which by the town’s standards is still not long enough to find the exit.
There are a couple of interesting wrinkles in the data. According to Nielsen’s breakdown, more than 40% of the watch time came from Hispanic (27%) and Black (18%) viewers, which suggests the show’s word of mouth runs well beyond the usual mystery-box faithful with their whiteboards and red string. The previous week’s leaders, Netflix’s sea-monster serial Below and Prime Video’s Carrie, both fell out of the overall top ten in their third weeks. American horror viewing appears to be run as a relay, and From currently has the baton. The usual small print applies: Nielsen only counts American viewing on television sets, so anyone watching on a phone under the duvet goes unrecorded. Nobody in From would watch anything under a duvet, mind. That’s where things hide.
The tempting conclusion is that a Netflix bump buys a show more seasons. Not in this case. MGM+ announced back in April that season five will be the last; it is shooting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is due on MGM+ in 2027. So the “Netflix effect” here is less a lifeline than a very large crowd turning up just before last orders. It’s the Breaking Bad pattern, where a streaming catch-up swelled the audience in time for the final run, and it leaves the writers holding a much bigger room to satisfy when the lid finally comes off the mystery box. Television has a patchy record at that particular trick. Millions of new viewers now have a stake in whether John Griffin’s show sticks the landing.
A reminder for readers on this side of the Atlantic: the Netflix licence covers the United States only, and UK viewers will need to look to Sky and NOW. Wherever you watch it, the advice for newcomers is to pace yourselves. There are only so many episodes left, and once they’re gone, there really is no way out.
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