A look at the 10 most popular things on Netflix right now

Welcome to our guide of the most popular new releases on Netflix, a full breakdown of the biggest shows, based on who’s watching what.

We’re in the third week of April and the coming-of-age drama Ginny and Georgia has finally fallen from the Netflix Top 10 — just as it receives a second season pick-up from the streamer. Meanwhile, it looks like whole empires will crumble into dust and continents will be swallowed by the oceans before Cocolemon ever gives up the ghost. The new science-fiction horror thriller Synchronic starring The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s Anthony Mackie leads the charge among this week’s Top 10, joined by such shows as the Jamie Foxx-led sitcom Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!, The Baker and the Beauty, and the new Myspace-centric true crime doc-series Why Did You Kill Me?

To help you navigate the vast swath of Netflix offerings, we’ve gathered our reviews, features, and quick takes on the shows and films that have cracked the Top 10 list for the United States, and put them in one easy-to-read place. Read on to find out what people are watching, and get coverage to help you choose which of Netflix’s most popular hits meet your needs or personal tastes.

Polygon updates the Netflix Top 10 each Tuesday. The actual top 10 may is subject to change between updates.

Netflix’s biggest new releases

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10. The Serpent

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Golden Globe nominee Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, Victoria) star in the eight-part crime drama The Serpent directed by Tom Shankland (The Children) and Hans Herbots. Inspired by real events, the miniseries follows the story of serial conman Charles Sobhraj (Rahim) and his remarkable attempts to allude the authorities aligned to bring him to justice.

9. Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn

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Nickelodeon’s family sitcom Nicky, Ricky, Dick, and Dawn stars Aidan Gallagher (The Umbrella Academy), Casey Simpson, Mace Coronel, and Lizzy Greene (A Million Little Things) as Harper family’s nine-year-old quadruplets who have nothing in common and often fight, but must work together to solve everyday situations. Think 19 Kids and Counting, minus 15 kids and adding a laugh track behind every character’s third or fourth line.

8. Who Killed Sara?

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A Spanish-language murder mystery drama starring Manolo Cardona (Undertow), Who Killed Sara? follows the story of Alex, a man convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, who emerges from prison after 18 years to wreak vengeance on the true culprit (Alejandro Nones) behind the death that he was falsely accused of. Things quickly take a turn when Alex forms a connection with Elisa (Carolina Miranda), the daughter of the man who imprisoned him, and discovers that not everything is quite as it appears. As Alex plunges ever further into the uncovering the truth, two questions elude him: Who killed Sara, and why?

7. Thunder Force

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On the surface, Thunder Force sounds like the female superhero buddy comedy equivalent of 2011’s Bridesmaids or 2019’s The Hustle. Set in a world where supervillains are commonplace, Ben Falcone’s latest comedy follows estranged childhood friends Lydia (Melissa McCarthy) and Emily (Octavia Spencer) who reunite after the latter devises an experimental treatment that gives them superpowers. Endowed with these newfound abilities, the pair set out to fight crime and protect the city — hopefully without breaking too many things in the process. From our review:

Thunder Force might help illustrate why there are so few pure superhero comedy movies. Superhero action speaks to the secret kid inside many of us who sees someone getting thrown through a wall and thinks, Whoo, that’s badass, I wish I could do that. Doing the same thing and making it hilarious is difficult enough without juggling all the other complicated elements that make a sharp comedy. Thunder Force occasionally nails the funny aspects of a superpowered world, mostly through sheer force of absurdity. But it’s missing an awful lot of the elements of good comedy in general.

6. Cocomelon

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If your kid’s got to watch something (or possibly even you, no judgement!), the YouTube-animated-nursery-rhymes-and-songs-channel-turned-Netflix animated series is one of the most popular children shows on the service this week. Amazingly, it’s been on the list since last fall and isn’t giving up the spot.

5. Why Did You Kill Me?

When 24-year-old Crystal Theobald was killed in 2006, her cousin Jamie and mother Belinda Lane took to Myspace in order to investigate the people whom she believed were responsible. Why Did You Kill Me follows the Theobald family’s digital odyssey of retribution, justice, and revenge, as Jamie and Belinda’s actions reverberate into consequences that effect the lives of all those involved.

4. The Circle

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The Circle, not to be confused with the 2017 dystopian techno-thriller starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, is a reality competition show à la Big Brother set in the dystopian techno-thriller of our waking existence. The show follows contestants who are isolated in their own apartments and only able to communicate with one another via “The Circle,” a computer program that transcribes their conversations into text. They’re able to fabricate entire personalities wholesale, lying to their fellow contestants as they must complete to garner clout among one another and climb the ranks to either become a coveted “Influencer” or be “Banned” from the game. So essentially it’s a nightmarish post-modern mash-up of What’s My Line?, the Chinese room thought experiment, and that “Nosedive” episode from the first season of Black Mirror. And I thought the Masked Singer was bleak! Season 2 just landed, catapulting the Netflix Original back on to the charts.

3. Dad Stop Embarrassing Me

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To say that a lot’s changed in Jamie Foxx’s life and career since his last sitcom, The Jaime Foxx Show, ran on the WB back in 1996 would be an understatement. The Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning star of such films as Django Unchained, Ray, Soul, and Just Mercy returns to the world of television in the age of streaming with his latest sitcom Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!, of which Foxx stars and co-executive-produces with his daughter Corinne Foxx. Not going to lie, it’s sounds pretty awful based on the reviews, but hey, with a career like Foxx’s, you can afford to have a miss or two every once in awhile.

2. The Baker and the Beauty

ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty, adapted from the popular Israeli rom-com The Beauty and the Baker, follows in the latter’s premise to a T, as blue-collar baker Daniel Garcia (Victor Rasuk, Fifty Shades of Grey) strikes up an uncommon romance with famous supermodel and mega-rich entrepreneur Noa Hamilton (Nathalie Kelley, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift). It looks cheerful, fluffy, and fun; give it a shot, yeah?

1. Synchronic

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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s sci-fi horror mystery Synchronic follows Steve (Anthony Mackie, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan, Once Upon a Time), two lifelong friends and paramedics working in New Orleans whose lives are torn asunder in the wake of a series of horrific and inexplicable deaths. The gory incidents are tied to a designer drug that allows its user to collapse the folds of linear and spatial perception (think the Tralfamadorians from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five) and instantly transport themselves to another time and place. Talk about a trip.

Source: https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/10/21167710/10-netflix-movies-shows-most-popular