Netflix has a new global streaming success on its hands, according to MovieWeb, which reports that season 2 of the action thriller Black Doves is sneaking up the platform's charts with remarkable speed.

The season debuted on Nov. 5, 2026, and within just two days it had become the fifth most popular series on Netflix globally.

In the United States, MovieWeb notes the show sits seventh on the popularity list — less dazzling, but the outlet expects it to climb quickly given how little time it has had to accumulate viewers.

The backdrop helps explain the surge: MovieWeb points out that dark thrillers are dominating Netflix right now, with Collision Course the #1 movie on the platform, alongside crime thriller series Lupin, fantasy thriller Dead-End Job and true-crime title Taken: Natalee Holloway, which currently holds the top series spot.

With CBS delaying new episodes of Tracker and Marshals, the outlet argues the timing is ideal for viewers to binge the two-season action hit.

What the series is, and why it works, is MovieWeb's central interpretation: Black Doves blends the spy elements of Taylor Sheridan's Lioness with the action of John Wick.

Keira Knightley leads as Helen, the wife of the British Defense Secretary who is secretly an undercover spy, forced out of hiding when the man she actually loves is murdered.

With help from her lifelong friend — a fellow brutal killer — she investigates the murder while fighting the agency she used to work for.

MovieWeb describes the action as ripped straight from the world of Keanu Reeves' John Wick, while the worldbuilding feels reminiscent of Sheridan's female-led intelligence drama.

Joe Barton created the series, which also stars Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Buchan, Ella Lily Hyland, Andrew Koji and Paapa Essiedu.

On the review side, MovieWeb reports season 1 held a near-perfect 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating, and season 2 has surpassed it with 94% at the time of writing — though the outlet cautions that score could shift as more reviews arrive.

The measurable signs of the hit, all per MovieWeb, are concrete: a season 2 debut on Nov. 5, a fifth-place global series ranking within 48 hours, a seventh-place US ranking, and a season 2 critics' score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes that tops season 1's 92%. The audience picture is still forming.

MovieWeb reports that season 1 held a modest 64% Rotten Tomatoes user rating, and season 2's Popcornmeter score has not yet been generated because not enough RT users have submitted reviews — though the audience ratings submitted so far are, per the outlet, overwhelmingly positive.

Against it on the charts sits Taken: Natalee Holloway in the #1 series position, meaning Black Doves is chasing, not yet toppling, the platform's biggest thriller.

Black Doves will not have the Netflix news cycle to itself for long.

According to What's on Netflix, Blumhouse and Sony's Insidious: Out of the Further arrives on Netflix US on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2026 — a full four weeks earlier than the outlet originally projected, and just 92 days after the film's theatrical debut against the roughly 120-day pattern Sony movies usually follow.

Written and directed by Jacob Chase, the sixth Insidious entry stars Amelia Eve as Gemma, a young mother who can bring spirits out of The Further into the real world, with Lin Shaye returning as Elise Rainier and Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers joining.

What's on Netflix notes the film misses the Halloween window but should serve as a spooky alternative to the Christmas movies flooding Netflix later this month, with Spider-Man: Brand New Day expected to follow as one of the last big Sony releases on Netflix US in 2026.