Wednesday Becomes Netflix's Most-Watched Show Thanks to Murky Math
by Rob Bricken
Wed, June 21, 2023, 6:30 AM GMT+8
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For a long while, Netflix has decided the popularity of its most-watched TV
series and movies should be determined by how many hours the streaming service
’s customers watched it. So, for instance, if you rewatched a season of
Stranger Things, you’d be boosting its ratings just even though you’d
already seen it. Now Netflix has changed its algorithm—kind of—and it’s to
Wednesday’s benefit.
The new system Netflix is using divides the number of hours watched by the
runtime of the show or movie, and decides that’s how many people watched it.
This is bogus, of course; again, if you rewatched season one of Stranger
Things, Netflix is essentially stating you are two separate people. It’s not
much of a change, really, in terms of how these rankings of the shows and
movies break down, but it’s enough for The Addams Family pseudo-spin-off to
knock down Netflix’s previous TV champion, Stranger Things season four. Here
are the top 10 series:
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