Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once.
He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
The biggest movie across the globe on Netflix this past week wasn't the drama Don't Say Good Luck or even the holdover sci-fi thriller The Last House. Both movies drew 12 million views each, with The Last House narrowly missing out on the top spot for the third time in a row. The number-one movie on Netflix this past week, instead, was a Mexican neo-Western based on real-life events from a decade ago. Unlike its competitors, Netflix shares viewership data on a weekly basis, and the latest report tracks the week of August 17 to August 23. While Don't Say Good Luck topped the English-language movies chart with 12.8 million views, pushing The Last House to number two, the Mexican film generated 18 million views in its first week on the non-English list.
The movie in question is based on a real-life incident that unfolded in the badlands of Mexico in 2016. Two police officers, nearing the end of their shift, spotted a stolen car racing across the highway. When they flagged it down, they realized that its passenger was none other than the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, more popularly known as El Chapo. He'd escaped from prison some months earlier, and was on the run. El Chapo offered the police officers hefty bribes, but also threatened them with dire consequences were they to arrest him. Awaiting further instructions, the officers took him to a nearby motel where a standoff ensued between the law enforcement agencies and members of El Chapo's cartel. The drug lord's rise to the top of the Sinaloa Cartel was previously dramatized in the Netflix series El Chapo; he also appeared briefly in Narcos: Mexico.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe QuizWhich Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In?Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn't write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
QUESTION 1 / 10POWER
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Where does your power come from?In Sheridan's world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
QUESTION 2 / 10LOYALTY
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Who do you put first, no matter what?Loyalty in Sheridan's universe is always absolute — and always costly.
QUESTION 3 / 10CONFLICT
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond?Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it's crossed.
QUESTION 4 / 10SETTING
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Where do you feel most in your element?Sheridan's worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
QUESTION 5 / 10MORALITY
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How do you feel about operating in the grey?Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
QUESTION 6 / 10AMBITION
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto?Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they're defending.
QUESTION 7 / 10LEADERSHIP
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How do you lead?Authority in Sheridan's world is never given — it's established, maintained, and constantly tested.
QUESTION 8 / 10OUTSIDERS
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction?Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
QUESTION 9 / 10COST
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What has your position cost you?Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
QUESTION 10 / 10LEGACY
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When it's over, what do you want people to say?Sheridan's characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has SpokenYou Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you're complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
YELLOWSTONE
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world's indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you're willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family's weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what's yours, you don't escalate — you finish it. You're not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone's world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn't make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
LANDMAN
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You're a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they'll do to get it. You're not naive enough to think this world is fair. You're smart enough to be the one deciding who it's fair to.
TULSA KING
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you're not above reminding people that the two aren't mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they'd be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they're more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don't need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you're the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky's world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You've made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
Here Are More Viewership Details for Netflix's New Number-One Hit Worldwide
Combining the thrills of Sicario and the suspense of No Country for Old Men, the movie in question is Facing El Chapo. According to Netflix, it raked in 18 million views in its first week of release, edging out every other movie on the streamer. Facing El Chapo was the number-one movie in 24 countries, mainly in Central and South America. Directed by Chava Cartas, it stars Alfonso Herrera and Noé Hernández as the officers, and Héctor Kotsifakis as El Chapo.
You can watch the film on Netflix and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.