Burning in my brain, I can feel the flame (October 4 to 10)

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Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	Christa Pike		2,615,940		This Tennessee murderer was sentenced to the death row for a brutal ritualistic assassination, took 30 years until the execution would finally happen, and then the attempted lethal injection failed last week. Pike has come out of a comatose state and she is not happy to say the least. The botched event has led to Tennessee governor Bill Lee to put a pause on executions for the remainder of the year.
2	Nana Patekar		2,067,211		A Bollywood actor and filmmaker, known for a variety of films and considered among the most influential names in Indian cinema if his article is to be believed. Patekar died at 75 on 8 October due to a cardiac arrest.
3	Nidal Hasan		1,809,655		The former US Army physician and perpetrator of #16 is due to be executed himself. Unlike #1, he is due to be executed by firing squad.
4	Digger (2026 film)		1,118,030		This Iñárritu film about an aging oil magnate causing an ecological disaster has been successful in Wikipedia views but not so much at the box office, with its current revenue being ten times lower than what it needs to break even. The film was also polarizing to critics, and its marketing has boldly leaned into that, showing clips of negative reviews followed by Tom Cruise's character throwing profanity at the reviewers. Only time will tell whether this new strategy can rescue the film's box office totals.
5	Drishyam: The Conclusion		1,082,779		On the other hand, here we have a Hindi crime thriller starring prolific actor Ajay Devgn that has been very successful both at the box office and with critics, the latter giving it a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The third film in the Drishyam series and the first to be unconnected to its Malayalam counterpart, the film has risen to become the second highest-grossing Indian film of 2026.
6	Deaths in 2026		1,011,854		We'll carry on, we'll carry on And though you're dead and gone, believe me Your memory will carry on
7	East of Eden (novel)		1,008,822		John Steinbeck's 1952 Salinas Valley masterpiece, telling the tale of the Trask family and how Cathy Ames married into it and nearly destroyed it, has been adapted nearly tenfold since its release (with #9 being the latest). Steinbeck made it well known that everything he had written prior to Eden was simply "practice" for it.
8	Mike Ditka		997,639		The three-time Super Bowl winner played for the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys as well as Da Bears, the team with whom he would coach to a win in Super Bowl XX. Ditka died on October 9, nine days before his 87th birthday. "Coach" remains a ubiquitous part of National Football League and Chicago history.
9	East of Eden (2026 miniseries)		958,046		The aforementioned adaptation that put #7 on the list. Starring Florence Pugh as Cathy, the series was adapted by Zoe Kazan, whose grandfather Elia Kazan was the director of the 1955 film version of East of Eden. The seven-episode miniseries was released on October 1 and received generally positive reviews from critics.
10	Lizzie Borden		812,989		Still riding off her Netflix portrayal, Borden narrowly remains in the Top 10 for another week. Here's another interesting fact about her before she gets axed from the list (see what I did there?): the murder trial wasn't the last of her legal troubles. Apparently, four years after her acquittal for murder in Massachusetts, she received publicity for being accused of shoplifting in neighboring Rhode Island. Unfortunately, the article does not mention whether she was found guilty or not, and it's doubtful that this incident made it into the Netflix series.

Get my television fix, sitting on my crucifix (October 11 to 17)

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Rank	Article	Class	Views	Image	Notes/about
1	RJ Mitte		4,328,936		Known for playing as Walter White Jr. in the first season of Breaking Bad, and also a disability rights activist as someone born with cerebral palsy, Mitte died at his home on October 12. His representative believes that Mitte died by suicide, though this is disputed by his mother as there was no suicide note beforehand. In any case, co-stars of Breaking Bad, as well as its creator Vince Gilligan, have shared their tributes to him, with his on-screen dad Bryan Cranston saying that "he never – ever – allowed that challenge [of cerebral palsy] to be an excuse for anything." A public celebration of life has been scheduled for October 25 at Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2	Katie Zacharia		3,386,963		A political commentator who had just been named as Karoline Leavitt's successor as White House press secretary, but following her first press briefing, someone asked Zacharia about her bar exam, and this dug up that she never passed any of those, thus in spite of graduating law school she was lying in calling herself a lawyer. The outcry was enough to get Zacharia fired after just five days at the job, less than half as long as Anthony Scaramucci lasted as Communications Director.
3	Jailer 2		1,177,865		The sequel to 2023's Jailer, bringing back Rajinikanth as a retired jailer, this film released on October 15 to mostly positive reviews and has already become the highest-grossing Tamil film of 2026.
4	Kimberly Guilfoyle		960,080		The American ambassador to Greece from 2025 until her October 13 resignation at Trump's request, which was announced by #2 during her first (and only) press briefing. Guilfoyle had been accused of corruption, having allegedly asked Trump-allied businessman Eric Deters for $100,000 in exchange for political favors.
5	Deaths in 2026		958,100		You've given me much more than words could ever say And oh, my dear, I'll be right here until my dying day...
6	Carrie (miniseries)		929,310		Not to be confused with the novel, the 1976 film, its 1999 sequel, the other film adaptations from 2002 and 2013, the stage musical, or the Riverdale episode about a production of that musical. This new version, starring Summer H. Howell, dropped all eight episodes on October 7 to mostly positive reviews.
7	Selma Blair		856,270		The former Hollywood actress who had to work less due to multiple sclerosis appeared in the police section of the news, being taken into custody and hospitalized following an LA-NY flight where she allegedly bit a flight attendant and left another with lacerations, while also assaulting the Port Authority officer who was taking her away. Blair could face up to 7 years in prison.
8	Nidal Hasan		721,442		The perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting remains on the list due in no small part to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream his execution. Thankfully, Hegseth's boss Trump shut that plan down on October 15 following widespread bipartisan criticism.
9	Below (miniseries)		693,633		It wouldn't be a Top 25 Report without a Netflix miniseries. This one, whose six episodes came out on October 8 to positive reviews, comes from Canada, starring Josh Hartnett as a fisherman in a Newfoundland town threatened by a mysterious sea creature.
10	Street Fighter (2026 film)		648,710		There was already a Mortal Kombat movie this year, so the other landmark fighting game series gets another shot at the silver screen. Writer-director Kitao Sakurai finally gave franchise protagonist Ryu the central role, given the two misguided previous attempts at a movie were a 1994 campfest focused on Guile and an overall lame 2009 film about Chun-Li, and Andrew Koji plays the Hadouken hero as he's taken out of hiding by friend/rival Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) to contest a martial arts tournament organized by the villainous M. Bison (David Dastmalchian). Reviews were mixed as the endless fighting sequences and faithful characterizations try to prop up a scattershot script full of juvenile humor, but Street Fighter topped the box office, being close to at least matching its $82 million budget with $51 million worldwide.

For the September 23 – October 23 period, per this database report.