The most popular Netflix title dominating the platform this week is Running Point — a sports comedy in the vein of Ted Lasso and starring Kate Hudson as Isla Gordon, a reformed party girl who unexpectedly becomes president of her family’s pro basketball team, the Los Angeles Waves.
As Hudson’s charming Gordon fights to prove she belongs in the cutthroat world of professional basketball, she must outmaneuver skeptical execs, power-hungry rivals, and her own self-doubt — while also bringing a fresh and often chaotic perspective to the game. Netflix publishes its ranking of the hottest TV shows each week, and we’ll take a closer look at Running Point below, as well as the rest of what’s hot on the streamer at the moment.
Netflix Top 10 shows
Here’s this week’s complete list of the Top 10 English-language shows on Netflix, based on the latest updated data from the company:
- Running Point — 12.2 million views
- Zero Day — 7.5 million views
- Toxic Town — 4.7 million views
- Halo (Season 1) — 4.2 million views
- American Murder: Gabby Petito — 4.2 million views
- Beauty in Black (Season 1) — 3.8 million views
- Raw: 2025 (March 3, 2025) — 3.1 million views
- Andrew Schulz: LIFE — 2.9 million views
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive (Season 7) — 2.6 million views
- With Love, Meghan (Season 1) — 2.6 million views
To learn more about some of this week’s other most-watched series, you can go deeper by checking out our previous coverage of some of the Netflix originals above, such as the Robert De Niro-led cyberthriller Zero Day and the British series Toxic Town that revisits one of the UK’s worst environmental scandals. For now, though, let’s focus on the biggest Netflix TV release in the world at the moment.
Running Point — #1 on Netflix
The current top-ranked Netflix title globally by viewership, Running Point is a #1 show in 33 countries this week after hitting the streamer at the end of February. The show is also the rare Netflix release where critics and audiences are more or less in alignment, with near identical scores on Rotten Tomatoes in both categories (a strong 79% and 81%, respectively).
With its quirky ensemble cast, including Drew Tarver and Scott MacArthur as Isla’s goofy brothers and Brenda Song as her no-nonsense best friend, Running Point blends sharp workplace comedy with plenty of emotional moments. There’s even a troubled star player (played by Chet Hanks, of all people) who needs as much guidance off the court as he does on it. “Congratulations to the great Mindy Kaling on the new Netflix series Running Point, starring Kate Hudson!!” baseball analyst and broadcaster Jim Bowden raved on X.
“The show is the best sports sitcom since Ted Lasso. We finished all 10 episodes last night. It’s phenomenal. I highly recommend it. Great characters, funny and well written.”
In the show, Isla’s unexpected rise to power sets up a classic fish-out-of-water story as she tries to prove she belongs in the male-dominated world of sports leadership. While Running Point leans more into snappy, sarcastic humor than the earnest optimism of a show like Ted Lasso, the shows share a core message: That leadership isn’t about knowing all the answers — it’s about bringing out the best in the people around you.
Hudson’s Gordon might not be dropping locker room pep talks just yet, but her journey from hot mess to team leader makes for the kind of feel-good TV that’s hard to resist.
