Diddy docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning kept tens of millions of Netflix subscribers glued to their screens.
Earlier this week, the streamer released its “What We Watched the Second Half of 2025” viewership report, detailing viewing counts for all titles on the platform from July to December.
Over the past six months, subscribers watched 96 billion hours of content on Netflix.
The Reckoning was the seventh most-watched series on the chart, even though it debuted on Dec. 2, and was only available for four weeks of the viewing period.
The docuseries from director Alex Stapleton and executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was viewed 50.8 million times by subscribers around the globe.
It crushed the Eddie Murphy doc Being Eddie, which was viewed 11 million times. The film Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, released in August, was the top documentary with 57 million views.
The top series over the past six months was Wednesday: Season 2 with 123.9 million views. Stranger Things 5 came in second place with 93.5 million views. The Diddy doc was the No. 7 series on the chart.
KPop Demon Hunters shattered the movie record with 482 million views, making it the No. 1 film on the report, and the streamer’s most-watched movie ever, Netflix said.
In comparison, action comedy Back in Action, starring Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz, was the most-watched film in the first half of 2025 with 164.7 million views, as previously reported.
Sean Combs: The Reckoning focused on sexual abuse allegations against the music mogul.
The four-part series included interviews with former Bad Boy recording artists, a former male escort, police detectives, former Bad Boy security guard Roger Bonds, the music mogul’s childhood friend Tim Patterson, R&B singer Al B. Sure, and two jurors from Combs’ criminal trial.
Some of the most shocking allegations came from Bad Boy co-founder Kirk Burrowes, who said he witnessed Combs attack his mother, Janice Combs.
“I saw him put his hands on her, call her a b–h, and slapped her,” Burrowes said.
Burrowes also alleged Combs beat a former girlfriend on a New York City street so badly that she climbed under a car.
And he said Combs had a history of ripping off business associates. Burrowes alleged Combs instructed him to change the Notorious B.I.G.’s newly signed recording contract after the rapper was killed, because he had just inked a more lucrative deal for himself.
According to Burrowes, Combs told him to swap out unsigned pages in the middle of the contract to insert “more favorable terms for Bad Boy.”
“I said, ‘That’s not right, I’m not doing it,’” Burrowes said in the series. “Ninety days later, I’m fired.”
Burrowes filed a civil lawsuit against Combs and his mother Janice Smalls (a.k.a. Janice Combs) in February 2025, alleging she and her son seized control of Bad Boy and made him sign over his 25 percent ownership stake after Combs threatened him with a baseball bat. They denied the allegations.
A rep for Combs slammed the docuseries just before it was released.
“Netflix is plainly desperate to sensationalize every minute of Mr. Combs’s life, without regard for truth, in order to capitalize on a never-ending media frenzy,” Juda Engelmayer said in a statement.
“If Netflix cared about truth or about Mr. Combs’ legal rights, it would not be ripping private footage out of context — including conversations with his lawyers that were never intended for public viewing. No rights in that material were ever transferred to Netflix or any third party,” Engelmayer added.
Combs is currently serving a 50-month sentence at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey, following his conviction on July 2 under the Mann Act for transporting people across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.
He is scheduled to be released in 2028.
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