- Every week, Parrot Analytics provides Business Insider the most in-demand TV shows on streaming services.
- This week includes Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and Netflix's "The Last Kingdom."
Amazon's Emmy-winning comedy "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" returned this week with its second season, and immediately landed on the list of audiences' top shows.
Every week, Parrot Analytics provides Business Insider with a list of the seven most "in-demand" TV shows on streaming services. The data is based on "demand expressions," the globally standardized TV demand measurement unit from Parrot Analytics. Audience demand reflects the desire, engagement, and viewership weighted by importance, so a stream or download is a higher expression of demand than a "like" or comment on social media.
This week's most in-demand streaming shows also include Netflix's "The Last Kingdom," which debuted on the list last week, and the recently canceled "Daredevil."
Below are this week's seven most popular shows on Netflix and other streaming services:
7. "The Last Kingdom" (Netflix)
Average demand expressions: 21,484,962
Description: "As Alfred the Great defends his kingdom from Norse invaders, Uhtred — born a Saxon but raised by Vikings — seeks to claim his ancestral birthright."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 83%
What the critics said (Season 3): The lazy gloss on this BBC series, set in 9th-century Britain and based on a series of novels by Bernard Cornwell, is that it’s a poor man’s Game of Thrones. And yes, the aesthetics are the same: furs and fortresses, gloriously tattooed pagans, bloody battles in windswept fields. But the reason Kingdom has been something of a cult pleasure since it debuted in 2015 is the way it’s pitched somewhere between solemn drama and high-camp hilarity. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue
Season 3 premiered on Netflix November 19.
6. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon)
Average demand expressions: 21,647,286
Description: After Midge’s triumph at the Gaslight, the fallout from her takedown of Sophie Lennon looms large, making her climb up the comedy ladder more challenging than ever. As the actual grind of being a comic begins to take its toll on Midge, the pressure to come clean to her family weighs on her – especially as her choices have a ripple effect on everyone around her.
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 94%
What critics said:"Sherman-Palladino has written a woman who's fearless, blunt, and brilliant at what she does, and watching her rise is Mrs. Maisel's trump card."— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic
Season 2 premiered on Amazon December 5.
5. "The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu)
Average demand expressions: 23,160,282
Description: "A woman forced into sexual servitude struggles to survive in a terrifying, totalitarian society."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 91%
What critics said: "The colors on the show's palette now include alternating resignation, rage, supplication and subversion; Elisabeth Moss continues to excel, but glimpses of the world beyond her have grown yet more intriguing."— Daniel D'Addario, Time
Season 2 premiered on Hulu in April.
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