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The Most Watched Streaming TV Shows

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Chandra Steele
 & Eric Griffith Senior Editor, Features
 & Chandra Steele Senior Features Writer
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Reelgood.com helps people find out if the TV shows (and movies) they want to watch are streaming, and on what service to find them. It also pulls a lot of data from its 4 million monthly users about what they're watching and uses that to extrapolate the most-watched programming in a given week.

Below you'll find the top shows streamed on Netflix last week in descending order. They're not all Netflix Originals—some are fantastic programs from other sources that just happen to be rocking the streaming world right now. Use it to compare your tastes—or to get an idea of what you should binge next.

The Most Watched Streaming TV Shows

Here are the top TV shows across all the video-streaming services for the week of November 10 to 16, 2021.

  1. Yellowstone (Paramount Network, Peacock, TVision)
  2. Dexter: New Blood (Showtime)
  3. Dexter (Showtime, fuboTV, Amazon Prime Video)
  4. Dopesick (Hulu)
  5. The Shrink Next Door (Apple TV+)
  6. Arcane (Netflix)
  7. Succession (HBO services)
  8. You (Netflix)
  9. Yellowjackets (Amazon Prime Video)
  10. Ghosts (Paramount+)

What's New on Netflix in November 2021

A tsunami of content is ready for you to stream, from new series and movies to anime and more. Here's what's coming to Netflix throughout November. (And here's everything to catch before it's pulled from the service.)

Squid Game

When you’re poor, a game show sounds like an easy win. When hundreds of people try it, and it ends up more Hunger Games-y, that makes it less fun.

You

Get inside the head of a stalker with this series that follows the extremes one man takes to be part of the lives of people he obsesses over. Based on the best-selling book, YouYou is now in its third season.

Midnight Mass

When a priest shows up on your isolated island and miracles start to happen, that is a good thing, right? Not in (the already canceled by Netflix) terror-filled Midnight MassMidnight Mass.

Maid

A woman tries to make a new life for herself and her daughter, getting a job for a cleaning service, so she can get away from her abusive partner. MaidMaid is based on the memoir by Stephanie Land.

Locke & Key

Watch the Locke family kids fight demons using all the magic keys in Key House. That might sound hokey, but this 2-season fantasy-horror binge is from Joe Hill (son of Stephen King), based on the fantastic graphic novels he wrote years ago. It’s not gory, sometimes it’s hilarious, and makes a great binge for those waiting for more Stranger Things.

Narcos: Mexico

Narcos MexicoNarcos Mexico was meant to be the fourth season of Narcos but instead, it's a standalone series. This show about the start of the Mexican drug war in the 1980s is fully binge-able with its third and final season.

Big Mouth

The randy, foul-mouthed, demon-haunted, pubescent children of the Emmy-winning Big MouthBig Mouth are back for a new season of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney and friends being inappropriate.

Arcane 

Shows based on games don’t always work, but not all those shows are ArcaneArcane, a beautifully animated adaptation from the creators of League of LegendsLeague of Legends. Unlike most Netflix shows, this one won’t all drop at once so plan to binge in shifts.

The Blacklist

If Hannibal Lecter didn’t eat people but still did crimes and turned himself in to help the FBI find other bad guys, he’d probably be Red Reddington (James Spader). But the criminal genius “hero” of this show will only work with one fledgling agent, for reasons revealed over the course of the 8 seasons available on Netflix (season 9 is on Peacock).

American Horror Story

Ryan Murphy’s super-stylized take on anthology horror rolls out a new tale with each season, nine of which are now on Netflix. The fun is in spotting the crossover between seasons, be it the stars or sometimes even the characters and bits of the story. Also fun: the screaming.

About Our Experts

Eric Griffith

Eric Griffith

Senior Editor, Features

My Experience

I've been writing about computers, the internet, and technology professionally since 1992, more than half of that time with PCMag. I arrived at the end of the print era of PC Magazine as a senior writer. I served for a time as managing editor of business coverage before settling back into the features team for the last decade and a half. I write features on all tech topics, plus I handle several special projects, including the Readers' Choice and Business Choice surveys and yearly coverage of the Best ISPs and Best Gaming ISPs, Best Products of the Year, and Best Brands (plus the Best Brands for Tech Support, Longevity, and Reliability).

I started in tech publishing right out of college, writing and editing stories about hardware and development tools. I migrated to software and hardware coverage for families, and I spent several years exclusively writing about the then-burgeoning technology called Wi-Fi. I was on the founding staff of several magazines, including Windows Sources, FamilyPC, and Access Internet Magazine. All of which are now defunct, and it's not my fault. I have freelanced for publications as diverse as Sony Style, Playboy.com, and Flux. I got my degree at Ithaca College in, of all things, television/radio. But I minored in writing so I'd have a future.

In my long-lost free time, I wrote some novels, a couple of which are not just on my hard drive: BETA TEST ("an unusually lighthearted apocalyptic tale," according to Publishers' Weekly) and a YA book called KALI: THE GHOSTING OF SEPULCHER BAY. Go get them on Kindle.

I work from my home in Ithaca, NY, and did it long before pandemics made it cool.

The Technology I Use

My first computer was a Laser 128, an Apple II-compatible clone with an integrated keyboard, matched with an eye-straining monochrome green monitor. I used it to type papers in college for other people for money...until I discovered the Mac SE in the college computer room. That changed my life. My first cellphone was a Samsung Uproar—the silver one with the built-in MP3 player from the Napster days (the pre-iPod era).

I use an iPhone 15 Pro hourly and an iPad Air infrequently (but I'm always in the market for a cheap Android tablet). I have a PlayStation 5 just to play Spider-Man, and several Windows machines, including a work-issued Lenovo ThinkPad. I talk to Alexa and Siri all day long. I do the majority of my computing on a 15-inch LG Gram laptop attached to a Thunderbolt hub to run a multi-monitor setup—I overdid it on the power needed to simply work from home.

I'm most at home in Microsoft Word after decades of writing there. More and more, I turn to services like Google Docs, using tools like Grammarly. I use Google's Chrome browser due to an addiction to several extensions I think I can't live without, but probably could. I use Excel extensively on data-intensive stories, but for chart creation, we've switched over entirely to using Infogram for interactive features that are hard to find elsewhere. I do a lot of graphics work for my stories, but limit myself to the free and amazing Paint.NET software to edit images.

I'm a firm evangelist for using the cloud for backup and syncing of files; I'm primarily using Dropbox, which has never failed me, but I also have redundant setups on Microsoft OneDrive, plus extra picture backups on Amazon Photos and iCloud. Why take chances? For entertainment, mine is a streaming-only household—my kid has never seen network TV and barely been exposed to commercials, thanks to Roku and Amazon Music. The house is peppered with smart speakers from Amazon for instant gratification and control of smart home devices like multiple Wyze cameras and Nest Protect smoke detectors. I've got accounts on all the major social networks, to my horror. I have a robot vacuum for each floor of the house. I want a 3D printer, but not sure what I'd use it for.

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Chandra Steele

Chandra Steele

Senior Features Writer

My Experience

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance state, vaccination cards, ghost guns, voting, ISIS, art, fashion, film, design, gender bias, and more. You might have seen me on TV talking about these topics or heard me on your commute home on the radio or a podcast. Or maybe you’ve just seen my Bernie meme. 

I strive to explain topics that you might come across in the news but not fully understand, such as NFTs and meme stocks. I’ve had the pleasure of talking tech with Jeff Goldblum, Ang Lee, and other celebrities who have brought a different perspective to it. I put great care into writing gift guides and am always touched by the notes I get from people who’ve used them to choose presents that have been well-received. Though I love that I get to write about the tech industry every day, it’s touched by gender, racial, and socioeconomic inequality and I try to bring these topics to light. 

Outside of PCMag, I write fiction, poetry, humor, and essays on culture.

My Areas of Expertise

  • Making incomprehensible tech news easy to understand
  • Expanding the boundaries of topics covered in the industry
  • Figuring out tips and tricks in apps and on devices and letting you know about them
  • Putting together gift guides for everyone in your life 

The Technology I Use

All that gadgets is gold for me: my iPhone 11 Pro, my fifth-generation iPad that I use only for streaming videos and music, my iPad mini 4 that I like to take with me whenever I carry a bag that can fit it, and my MacBook Pro. Why are they all different shades of gold, though? What’s going on, Apple? 

None of them quite live up to my two past loves: my LG Lotus LX600 phone and my Sony Walkman NW-E005 MP3 player. 

I've never given up wired earbuds so I was ahead of all those trend pieces. I use a Mangotek Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter to connect them to my phone. 

I have had so many ebook readers, but I prefer paper to them all. Still, my Kindle Paperwhite is perfect for traveling or when I’m too impatient to wait for a book to be released in paperback.

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