There’s a good chance that for 2020, Netflix’s year in review looks a lot like your own year in review. And that’s because last year, the top activity for most of us was watching Netflix. Reviews.org put together the top shows and movies across the platform (see the full infographic below).
When most things were so isolated, there was camaraderie to be found in streaming some of the same shows as others. In March, we were adjusting to life indoors, and so it was just the right time for Love is Blind, a show where contestants looking for love get to know each other in their own little isolated pods. (We should have foreseen the premiere of The CircleThe Circle at the start of the year as a warning.)
By April, we realized that quarantine would last far longer than a few weeks, and we really started to get stir crazy. That’s when we took refuge in Tiger King. The internet bonded over the wild twists and turns and trading memes about Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin.
The warm weather and plateauing of COVID-19 in many places made May and June pass by without too many shows of note, the top ones being teen drama Outer Banks and the too-real joke of Steve Carell-helmed Space Force.
Things got weird in July with the return of Unsolved Mysteries. The biggest mystery was that many people did not realize that the episodes are unresolved because these mysteries are, uh, unsolved.
By August, we were so tired of things that we were ready to go back in time, specifically to 1963 with The Umbrella Academy. The Hargreeves siblings proved that they were as screwed up as ever but even more popular.
In September, we were ready to live out our 80s fantasies in the present day with a new season of Cobra Kai (which has just finished yet another season).
October is about comforting things, like long walks to see the changing leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, and Schitt’s Creek rewatches.
If you didn’t buy a chess set in November, did you even watch The Queen’s Gambit? It was such a popular show that sets were sold out all over the place.
Finally, in December, presumably in between Hallmark movies, people watched romance-drama Virgin River.
