Netflix’s Hit Spy Thriller Returns and Takes Over Streaming Charts

The second season of Netflix spy thriller *Black Doves*, starring Keira Knightley, quickly climbed the streaming charts after its 5 November release. Its early success shows the series remains a major draw for Netflix viewers and has returned to the platform’s most-watched titles.

Netflix recorded 3.8 million views for the season between 2 and 8 November, making it the fourth most-watched English-language series that week; it also reached second place on a global Netflix TV chart tracked by FlixPatrol. Knightley plays Helen Webb, a politician’s wife secretly passing political secrets to a spy organisation, whose investigation into her lover’s murder draws in assassin and old friend Sam Young, played by Ben Whishaw. Season two has six episodes and holds a 96% critics’ score and 66% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.