This year was filled with overwhelming emotions for all of us! The saving grace during the pandemic were movies and series, and the OTT platforms serving binge-watching options. With social distancing, lockdowns, and quarantine becoming daily topics of conversations and becoming our new normal, it was a good business for streaming sites like Netflix, Primevideo, Hulu, etc. as subscribers just couldn’t get enough.
In May, Comcast Corporations (an American telecommunications conglomerate) reported that Monday was the new weekend as quarantined households binge-watched more and more content on that day.
Key takeaways from Comcast Corporations’ 2020 data:
- COVID-19 is blurring weekday and weekend viewing levels and habits; Monday is a more popular viewing day than Saturday.
- Since early March, viewership has surged 8 hours a week per household, from 57 hours a week per household to 66 hours – or an extra workday’s worth of content.
- We’ve also seen a 35% increase in streaming and web video consumption, across our entire broadband network, in addition to traditional TV viewership increases.
As we near the finish line of this immensely challenging year, strict lockdowns measure and continued quarantined time, are going to lead consumers to continue streaming content online. ‘TV Time’ which has 15 million registered app users worldwide, surveyed which Netflix original series and limited series were binge-watched the most by those based in the U.S.
Here are the 10 most-watched new Netflix originals:
- Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness (Reality)
- Locke & Key (Drama)
- Space Force (Comedy)
- Outer Banks (Drama)
- Love Is Blind (Reality)
- The Queen’s Gambit (Drama)
- Never Have I Ever (Dramedy)
- Ratched (Drama)
- The Circle (Reality)
- Sweet Magnolias (Romance)
Netflix’s own daily top 10 lists for the U.S. from February 27 to December 8:
- The Queen’s Gambit (Historical Drama)
- Tiger King (Documentary)
- Ozark (Crime)
- Outer Banks (Mystery)
- The Umbrella Academy (Action)
- Unsolved Mysteries (Mystery)
- Cobra Kai (Action Fiction)
- Love Is Blind (Reality)
- The Haunting of Bly Manor (Drama)
- Ratched (Drama)
Netflix India
“India has the highest viewing of films on Netflix globally and over the last year, 80 percent of our members in India chose to watch a film every week,” Netflix India Vice President (Content) Monika Shergill said in a blog post.
This year, Netflix India witnessed an increase of 250% and 370% in the viewing of romantic films and K-dramas, respectively since 2019.
Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (Telugu), Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal (Tamil), Kappela (Malayalam), and Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (Telugu) were among many other films that featured in India’s Top 10 list.
Netflix India’s most popular movies in 2020:
- Most popular drama movie: Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
- Most popular comedy movie: Ludo
- Most popular thriller movie: Raat Akeli Hai
- Most popular action movies: Extraction, Malang, and The Old Guard
- Most popular romantic movies: Love Aaj Kal, and Ginny Weds Sunny
- Most popular documentaries: The Social Dilemma, and Money Heist: The Phenomenon
- Most popular anime movie: Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back-Evolution
- Most popular children’s movie: Over the Moon
Netflix India’s most popular series in 2020:
- Most popular romantic series: Mismatched
- Most popular docu-series: Bad Boy Billionaires: India
- Most popular non-fiction series: Too Hot to Handle, Indian Matchmaking, Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives
- Most popular anime series: Blood of Zeus, and One-Punch Man Season 2
- Most popular non-Indian, non-English series: The Protector
- Most popular K-dramas: The King: Eternal Monarch, Kingdom Season 2, It’s Okay to Not Be Okay, and Start-up
We all are in home confinement forced by the coronavirus pandemic, so without stressing much on this new normal, you can always have a good time watching some of the best movies and series mentioned above.
Well, it’s about time to open and scroll the Netflix app!