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In 2022, Vicky White told her colleagues she was ready to retire. For 17 years, she’d been working long hours at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, as the assistant director of operations. Her co-workers wondered how the place would function without her. Beloved by staff and detainees alike, Vicky was known both for competence and compassion. “She treated everybody like they were somebody,” says former Lauderdale County Detention Center inmate Tyler Purser in the documentary Jailbreak: Love on the Run. “She was like [the] mother … that everybody in there never had growing up.”

Directed by Dan Abrams and executive produced by Rachel Stockman, Jailbreak: Love on the Run brings together Vicky White’s friends and former colleagues. They try to figure out how an incarcerated person and one of the employees in the detention center managed to fall in love and plan a prison break.

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Netflix’s rom-com series Nobody Wants This attracted more viewing in its second week, moving up one spot to second overall in Nielsen’s weekly streaming charts.

The series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody drew 1.21 billion minutes of watch time for the week of Sept. 30-Oct. 6, a 16 percent improvement on its premiere week. It also moved up one spot in the overall rankings, as the prior week’s second-place title, Inside Out 2, dropped by 50 percent to a still strong 908 million minutes of viewing on Disney+.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story finished first overall for the third consecutive week with 1.41 billion minutes of viewing, down about 41 percent week to week. Netflix’s dating show Love Is Blind returned to the charts with a billion-minute week; its seventh season premiered on Oct. 2.

Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power debuted its season two finale on Oct.

Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story led Nielsen’s streaming charts for a second straight week — and grew substantially from its debut.

The Ryan Murphy-produced series was the top title for the week of Sept. 23-29 with just under 2.4 billion minutes of viewing time. That’s a 40 percent improvement on the drama’s opening week (it premiered Sept. 19), which had 1.72 billion minutes of watch time, and the highest total for any streaming series in Nielsen’s rankings since Bridgerton hit 2.47 billion minutes in June.

Two other Netflix series had strong opening weeks: Rom-com Nobody Wants This premiered to 1.04 billion minutes of viewing, and the docuseries Mr. McMahon, about World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon, had 908 million minutes.

On the film chart, Inside Out 2 debuted on Disney+ to 1.82 billion minutes of watch time, the second highest weekly total for any film this year, behind only Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F...

One of Stephen King's more popular film adaptations is gaining ground in Netflix's top 10 rankings. Audiences are revisiting It: Chapter Two as a go-to Halloween horror flick.

It: Chapter Two is ranked seventh on Netflix's U.S. viewing charts from Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. It's one of two horror films on the list, which is expected to be populated by slashers and thrillers come Halloween. Per Netflix, the weekly top ten list is based on the total hours viewed per title, measured between Monday and Sunday of the previous week. 2024's The Garfield Movie tops the list after spending three weeks in the rankings, followed by Jailbreak: Love on the Run (2024), Sing (2016), Escape Plan (2013), The Mechanic (2011), and The Platform 2 (2024). 2 Guns (2013), Robin Hood (2018), and Halloween (2018) wrap up the list at eighth to tenth place, respectively.

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Netflix has a reputation for producing outstanding documentaries on a wide variety of topics, including many wildly popular true crime titles.

On Oct. 7, Netflix added The Menendez Brothers, a new true crime documentary series about Lyle and Erik Menendez. The Menendez brothers' story was also the subject of the second season of Netflix's Monster series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. The series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan premiered on Netflix on Sept. 19.

We shared the list of the best true crime documentaries worth watching on Netflix this month.

The Menendez Brothers

The recent series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story has brought the brothers back into the headlines. While that series is a dramatization of events that took place almost 30 years ago, The Menendez Brothers is a two-hour documentary feature.

The film includes interviews with Erik and Lyle Menendez from prison. The brothers were convicted of murdering their parents,...

A 2011 action flick from British actor Jason Statham is seeing a surge in interest following its arrival on Netflix.

Netflix released its weekly Top 10 By Country chart, with director Simon West's The Mechanic landing at #5. Other entries on the chart include The Garfield Movie, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, Sing, Escape Plan, The Platform 2, It Chapter Two, 2 Guns, Robin Hood, and Halloween (2018).

Related Every Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie Movie, Ranked

Between Snatch and Wrath of Man, Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie are an actor-director duo responsible for multiple great crime films.

What Is The Mechanic About?

Distributed by CBS Films, The Mechanic is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name that features Statham as an assassin named Arthur Bishop, who notably stages his hits to look like accidents. Statham was joined by Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, and Donald Sutherland, among others.

Despite a 53% Rotten Tomatoes score,...

It Chapter 2 has become a streaming hit on Netflix in the U.S. Based on the 1986 horror novel by author Stephen King, the sequel serves as a follow-up to It (2017), with both films having been directed by Andy Muschietti. The first It film follows a group of kids living in Derry, Maine, as they face off against a terrifying, shape-shifting clown called Pennywise (Bill Skarsgrd), while the sequel follows these same characters 27 years later as they return to their hometown. Both films were box office successes, with the sequel grossing $473 million worldwide.

Now, new Netflix data reveals that It Chapter 2 ranks as the seventh most popular movie on the streamer in the U.S. for the week of September 30 to October 6. Unlike with the global chart, the U.S. chart doesn't include watch data for each of the top 10 titles, but the It sequel comes ahead of films...

Rez Ball, Netflix's new sports movie with a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score, debuts on the streamer's Global Top 10. Based on the nonfiction novel Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation by The New York Times journalist Michael Powell, the film follows a Native American high school basketball team from Chuska, New Mexico who lose their star player while competing for the state championship. LeBron James served as one of the film's producers, with Rez Ball's cast featuring Kauchani Bratt, Jessica Matten, Julia Jones, Amber Midthunder, and Kiowa Gordon.

Now, shortly after its release on September 27, Netflix's new sports movie has debuted on the streaming service's Global Top 10. Rez Ball ranks sixth on Netflix's Global Top 10 films (English) for the week of September 30 to October 6 with 3.9 million views and 7.4 million hours viewed. It ranked below Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, Sing, Rebel Ridge,...

If you enjoyed “Jailbreak: Love on the Run,” you might be interested in other Netflix documentaries that similarly explore gripping true crime stories involving escapes, manipulation, and unexpected relationships. These documentaries, like Jailbreak: Love on the Run, dive into the psychological and emotional aspects of criminal behavior, showing how individuals become entangled in complex and dangerous situations. Below are five documentaries that offer similarly intense, real-life tales of crime, pursuit, and emotional manipulation. 1. Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez

This documentary examines the rise and fall of NFL player Aaron Hernandez, who became entangled in a web of violence and crime. Like Jailbreak: Love on the Run, it explores how a seemingly normal person can spiral into criminal activity, and how their relationships play a significant role in their downfall.

2. Abducted in Plain Sight

A shocking case of manipulation, this documentary tells the story of a young girl kidnapped twice by a family friend.

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“Nobody Wants This” hasn’t just overtaken viewers’ hearts; it’s overtaken the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched English-language TV shows. The Kristen Bell and Adam Brody romantic comedy surpassed the viewership for “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” in its second week of eligibility.

Overall, the series secured 15.9 million views compared to the 13.1 million views “Monsters” saw during the week of Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. This isn’t the first time these two shows have shared the first and second spots. Last week, their ranking was reversed with Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s “Monsters” scoring 19.5 million views in its second week on the streamer and “Nobody Wants This” seeing 10.3 million views in its first week.

The two current TV powerhouses were followed by the seventh season of “Love Is Blind,...

Audiences can’t get enough of Adam Brody and Kristen Bell in Netflix’s Nobody Wants This.

In its first full week on the streamer, the 10-episode romcom rose to 15.9M views, making it No. 1 in TV and the most-watched English language title of the week. It couldn’t beat The Platform 2, a Spanish thriller, which generated 19.4M views and topped the Non-English film list.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story fell to second place during this interval, still tallying 13.1M views, while Love is Blind Season 7 launched with 5.2M views.

Heartstopper also returned to the list with Season 3 amassing 4.5M views, which was good enough for fourth place. The Perfect Couple is also still holding onto a spot at No. 5 with 3.8M views. Meanwhile, Season 4 of Emily in Paris is losing steam, coming in at No. 9 with 2.6M views.

Things were a bit slow on the English films list.

“Nobody Wants This” debuted at No. 1 on Luminate’s weekly rankings of streaming original viewership, tying last week’s top title — “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” — each with a strong 1.7 billion minutes.

A rom-com series starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This” achieved that total in its first full week of availability on Netflix, while “Monsters” was in its second full week, having debuted at No. 1 with 2.7 billion minutes watched during the Sept. 20-26 viewing window.

The third-most-watched title of the week was Netflix's Vince McMahon docuseries "Mr. McMahon," which hit 765.6 million mintues watched in its first full week of availability. It was followed by Season 2 of "Tulsa King," which released its third episode during this window and hit 568.5 million minutes watched. "Tulsa King" Season 1 also made the chart this week, landing at No. 7 with 228.5 million minutes watched.

"The Perfect Couple" was the No. 5 title of...

Number two film of the summer “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Disney), held back from any home viewing until after its tenth weekend in theaters, took the #1 spot on both iTunes (ranking by transactions) and Fandango (by revenue). But perhaps only for a brief stay.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.), a major hit though not quite in the same league as the Marvel sequel ($235 million U.S./Canada gross so far versus $634 million; both films still in the top 10) will likely replace it when released Tuesday on PVOD after its fifth weekend. That feels a little early (32 days), more so since Tim Burton’s sequel is still #3, with over $10 million.

But if anything, it appears PVOD release boosts theatrical play as of late, at least in the short term. In any event, with the opening weekend debacle of “Joker: Folie à Deux” (revised downward to $37.8 million), it will provide some immediate cash to the Burbank studio.

Despite returning the property to a dormant state after its release, Taron Egerton's infamous Robin Hood reboot has found new life on streaming. Starring Egerton as the titular folklore rogue, Otto Bathurst's 2018 movie saw a disgraced Robin take up arms against the corrupt powers ruling Nottingham that took his wealth and status to further their own cause, joining forces with the rebelling commoners. Robin Hood also starred Jamie Foxx as Robin's accomplice John, Eve Hewson as his love interest Marian, and Ben Mendelsohn as the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Despite a poor performance at the box office and poor impressions on critics, Robin Hood is finding a surprising new audience on Netflix. Though it holds an unenviable 14% among critics' reviews and a slightly more impressive but still unremarkable 39% among viewers, the feature recently entered Netflix's Top 10 Movies. At the time of writing, Egerton's 2018 reboot holds the No. 8 spot, coming...

Escape Plan, the 2013 Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger prison action thriller, has enjoyed a new lease of life on the streaming platform Netflix. The movie, which co-stars 50 Cent, Jim Caviezel, Vinnie Jones, Amy Ryan, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Sam Neill, was directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hfstrm, with a screenplay by Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko. The movie received mixed reviews and was a box office success, grossing $137 million against a budget of $54 million to $70 million, and was followed by two sequels, both featuring Stallone.

Now, 11 years after the movie's initial release, it appears to be enjoying fresh success on streaming giant Netflix, with the film entering the platform's Top 10 movies in the United States for today. The movie has debuted at number 5 on the charts, edging out the Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg action-comedy 2 Guns, It: Chapter Two, Robin Hood, Jailbreak: Love On the Run, and 2018 Halloween remake,...

Warning: this article contains themes of assault, domestic abuse, and murder

Netflix's true-crime documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, has divided opinion, particularly concerning the love affair between long-time violent felon Casey White and Vicky White (surnames entirely co-incidental), the Assistant Director of the Fort Lauderdale County Jail from which the pair fled in April 2022. Jailbreak: Love on the Run's true story examines the origins of White's relationship, and traces its development through the eyes of Vicky White's former colleagues, friends, and the felons who were under her supervision.

Casey White was serving a 75-year sentence in Bessemer, Alabama for a crime spree including home invasion, car-jackings and multiple shootings, when he confessed to the 2015 murder of Connie Ridgeway in Rogersville, and was subsequently transferred to Fort Lauderdale in 2020 to await trial. There he came under the supervision of 17-year veteran corrections officer Vicky White. At some point...

Don’t let anyone say crime doesn’t pay, because it’s clearly enough to drive a program to the top of the streaming chart on the Samba TV Weekly Wrap Report. “The Penguin,” the Max gangster series about DC Comics’ bird-like crime boss (and famous Batman nemesis), remains at No. 1 for the second consecutive week.

It’s followed by a show about horrific real-world crime, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” This Netflix series uses actors to tell the infamous story of the Menendez brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents. It is the second season of Ryan Murphy’s “Monster” series, which focused on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in its first season.

Crime may pay when it comes to viewership, but a little anxiety doesn’t hurt either. “Inside Out 2,” the highest-grossing movie of 2024, comes in third this week after it was added to Disney+ on Sept.

Have you heard of the "Escape Plan" franchise? There's no reason to fret if you haven't, as only the first film in the series -- simply titled "Escape Plan" -- was a moderate hit, garnering mixed reviews at the time of release. The remaining two entries ended up being straight-to-video sequels, with little to no marketing to amplify their existence, so it is pretty natural to have completely missed out on the franchise. 

Well, due to the baffling, arbitrary nature of Netflix's algorithm, which often leads to overlooked titles landing in their Top 10 ranking lists, 2013's "Escape Plan" is currently at #3 among the streaming platform's Top 10 Movies in the U.S. (via FlixPatrol). This entry has been eclipsed by two equally unconventional titles: the inoffensive, yet mediocre "The Garfield Movie" at #2, and the morbid 90-minute crime documentary "Jailbreak: Love on the Run" occupying the number one spot.

If you never heard of "Escape Plan,...

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“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” maintained its reign as the most-watched TV show of the week on Netflix, outpacing the opening weekend of “Nobody Wants This.”

Ryan Murphy’s second “Monsters” installment scored 19.5 million views in its second week on the streamer, making it the most-watched title on Netflix this week. Viewership for the Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch-led series, which made it in the top 10 in 89 countries was nearly double that of the debut of “Nobody Wants This.”

The Kristen Bell and Adam Brody-led romcom series took second place on the most-watched TV list with 10.3 million views in its first week on the streamer since its Sept. 26 debut. Next up was “The Perfect Couple,” which scored 6 million views in its fourth week on the streamer,...

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story saw strong audience growth in its first full week on Netflix, tallying 19.5 million views from September 23-29.

That’s up pretty significantly from the 12.3 million it managed in its debut weekend, making it No. 1 in TV and the streamer’s most-watched title of the week.

However, it’s still down quite a bit from its predecessor, Dahmer: Monster – The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which was already becoming one of Netflix’s biggest hits ever by this point after its release. That series racked up about 300M views in its first full week on Netflix, which would translate to around 33M “views” by the streamer’s current metric.

Nobody Wants This took second place, putting up a nice 10.3M views in its first four days post-premiere. Meanwhile, The Perfect Couple is still going strong with 6M views, good enough for third place.

Season 4 of Emily in Paris...

“Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” debuted with 2.7 billion minutes watched in its first full week of availability on Netflix, easily landing on top of Luminate’s weekly ranking of streaming original viewership. The Ryan Murphy series was nearly three times above the next-most-watched title of the week: “The Perfect Couple,” which hit 916.4 million minutes watched in its third full week of availability.

There was another large drop-off between second place and third place, with “Tulsa King” Season 2 accruing 916.4 million minutes watched in the week of the release of its second episode. Next was a tie: “Emily in Paris” Season 4 in the second full week of availability of Part 2, and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 in the first full week of availability of its sixth episode and the first day of availability of its seventh episode. Both titles hit 398.3 million minutes watched.

"Agatha All Along,...

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Casey White was able to escape from prison in 2022 but couldn't evade capture or a new sentence, as detailed in Jailbreak: Love on the Run. The 2024 Netflix true crime documentary film follows the true story of Casey and Vicky White, a couple who were the source of widespread media attention when she helped him break out of prison. Prior to the escape, Vicky White worked as the assistant director of operations at the Lauderdale County Detention Center in Florence, Alabama, (where Casey White was imprisoned) for 17 years. However, her final day on the job didn't go as expected.

After her retirement party, Vicky White told her co-workers she was escorting Casey White to the courthouse for a mental health evaluation. But they never returned to the prison. The police then learned that Casey and Vicky White had a secret relationship that had been ongoing for two years.

It’s no surprise that Justin Baldoni’s “It Ends with Us” (Sony) with Blake Lively is an immediate #1 for its PVOD release 46 days after its very successful theatrical run. It replaced Zoë Kravitz’s “Blink Twice” (Amazon MGM) as #1. The psychological thriller is #2 this week at both iTunes (ranking by transactions) and Fandango (by revenue), with both films renting for 48 hours for $19.99.

The VOD charts remained otherwise mainly steady, with Netflix’s top 10 seeing large-scale changes and some signficant original additions. These include two documentaries, one just after significant festival exposure, the other a salacious true crime story that has already seen one previous film based on a prison escape that happened only two years ago.

Anyone who follows Netflix viewership trends won’t be surprised that “Jailbreak: Love on the Run” is doing better than “Will & Harper.” “Jailbreak” is based on the true story of a veteran...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Jailbreak: Love on the RunNetflix's 2024 documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run, provides an in-depth examination of the prison escape of convict Casey White and correctional officer Vicky White. Though they had the same last name, the two were unrelated, yet during Casey's imprisonment, they unexpectedly fell in love. A prolonged manhunt followed after their escape from the Lauderdale County Detention Centre in Alabama, which sadly resulted in Vicky's death and Casey's arrest.

Jailbreak: Love on the Run, part of Netflix's exciting slate of true crime shows, focuses on how respected prison officer Vicky White got involved in such a high-stakes criminal escape. Through interviews with investigators, Vickys co-workers, and Caseys fellow inmates, the documentary reveals surprising new insights into the couples relationship and the prison break. As Stockman recalls to Tudum, What made Vickys story so surprising was how trapped she felt and how little...

Casey and Vicky White first made headlines in 2022. Now they are the focus of Netflix’s latest crime documentary, Jailbreak: Love on the Run. So, who are Casey and Vicky? Continue reading to learn more about the case, plus when you can stream the new series.

How Did Vicky & Casey White Meet?

Jailbreak: Love on the Run focuses on the story of Casey and Vicky White. Casey, who was serving life in prison, escaped with the help of Vicky White, a correctional officer at the Lauderdale County Jail in Alabama.

Casey White, 41, was serving a 75-year sentence for a 2015 crime spree that included home invasion, carjacking, shootings, and kidnapping. He was also awaiting a capital murder trial for the stabbing death of 58-year-old Connie Ridgeway, which he confessed to while in prison.

While he was serving his time in Alabama, he met Vicky White, the assistant corrections director at the prison.

Chris Pratt's return to the animation genre is proving just as much of a streaming success as theatrical one as The Garfield Movie is already becoming a Netflix hit. The movie serves as a reboot of the franchise based on Jim Davis' beloved comic strip, with Pratt taking over the role from Bill Murray in the live-action/CGI hybrid movies. Following the titular cat as he's reunited with his long-lost father and goes on an adventure with him and Odie, The Garfield Movie was poorly received by critics, but generally embraced by audiences, grossing over $257 million against its $60 million production budget.

Just shy of four months after making its theatrical debut, The Garfield Movie premiered on Netflix as part of the streamer's exclusive rights deal with Sony, and it's already proving to be a hit for both parties. At the time of writing, the movie is maintaining the No.

Even though spooky season has likely commenced for a fair amount of fall and Halloween devotees, it's still the last weekend of September. On the list of Netflix new releases this week, there weren't too many spooky options to get into the spirit of the incoming autumnal festivities, but there are still plenty of options to add to your watch list this weekend.

While Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, Uglies, The Perfect Couple, Rebel Ridge, and Emily in Paris remain staples in the top 10 most popular rankings on Netflix going into the weekend, the week also brought so newbies to add to your watch list: documentary series Mr. McMahon, coming-of-age series Penelope, and documentaries Jailbreak: Love on the Run and Will & Harper.

Need a helping hand to guide your Netflix watch list this weekend? Here are three of the biggest new releases of the week. Which ones are worth watching,...

Jailbreak: Love on the Run, directed by Phil Lott and Ari Mark, is the story of how a prison guard named Vicky White fell in love with a dangerous inmate named Casey. Human behavior and patterns are still a mystery for researchers, and a lot of times, one does not understand why a person reacted the way they did. Vicky was a law enforcement officer, and she was well aware of the consequences her actions might entail. All her life, she had dealt with criminals, and yet she fell in love with one of them and walked towards her own doom. There were people who believed that Casey and Vicky were truly in love with each other, but there were many who thought that Vicky was manipulated by Casey for his own vested interests. These theories cannot be proven now, as Vicky took her life, and officials never managed to...

Exclusive: Alysia Russo, who was Head of Docuseries at Amazon MGM Studios, is moving to Netflix.

It marks a rare senior executive moving directly between two rival studios.

Russo is understood to be working on feature docs at Netflix. While there are two executives from this team on maternity leave, Russo’s role is unrelated and is a temporary contract, thought to be 18 months.

Russo was behind Amazon docuseries such as LulaRich and its upcoming Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story, which comes from the producers of ID’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

Her move comes less than four months after a restructure within Amazon MGM Studios.

In May, Russo’s boss Lauren Anderson, who was Head of AVOD Programming and Studios Unscripted across U.S. Prime Video and Amazon Freevee, was named Head, Brand and Content Innovation, but continuing to oversee the AVOD originals team.