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The top 9 shows on Netflix this week, from 'Ginny and Georgia' to 'Last Chance U'

Travis Clark   

The top 9 shows on Netflix this week, from 'Ginny and Georgia' to 'Last Chance U'
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  • "Ginny and Georgia" rose to the top of Netflix's popularity rankings this week.
  • Streaming search engine Reelgood keeps track of Netflix's daily top 10 lists.
  • It provides Insider with a rundown of the week's most popular TV shows on Netflix.

Netflix's new series "Ginny and Georgia" surged to the top of its popularity rankings this week, while library titles like Nickelodeon's "iCarly" and NBC's "Good Girls" continued to hold strong with users.

Every week, the streaming search engine Reelgood compiles for Insider a list of which TV shows have been most prominent on Netflix's daily top 10 lists of its most popular titles that week. Netflix counts a view if an account watches a movie or TV show for at least two minutes. Netflix's daily lists are based on the previous 24 hours.

Below are Netflix's 9 most popular TV shows of the week in the US:

9. "Marriage or Mortgage" (Netflix original, 2021-present)

9. "Marriage or Mortgage" (Netflix original, 2021-present)
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Description: "A wedding planner and a real estate agent compete to win the hearts and budgets of spouses-to-be. Will they pick fairy-tale nuptials or a dream home?"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: N/A

What critics said: "You have to respect the hosts in the end, not just for their generosity but for disguising — so well — how appalled they often are." — Wall Street Journal (season one)

8. "Last Chance U: Basketball" (Netflix original, 2021-present)

8. "Last Chance U: Basketball" (Netflix original, 2021-present)
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Description: "'Last Chance U' hits the hardwood in East Los Angeles as a coach with strong convictions leads young men who hope to fulfill major college potential."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%

What critics said: "The question is no longer whether Last Chance U is adaptable for new colleges or new sports, but rather how many places the producers want to go. Baseball? Women's soccer? Bring it on." — Hollywood Reporter (season one)

7. "Firefly Lane" (Netflix original, 2021-present)

7. "Firefly Lane" (Netflix original, 2021-present)
Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke star as Tully and Kate in Netflix's "Firefly Lane."      Netflix

Description: "Best friends Tully and Kate support each other through good times and bad with an unbreakable bond that carries them from their teens to their 40s."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 47%

What critics said: "Chalke and especially Heigl are smart and charismatic enough performers to inject some life into the proceedings and at least make it watchable. But too much of Firefly Lane seems to be going in circles." — Rolling Stone (season one)

6. "Good Girls" (NBC, 2018-present)

6. "Good Girls" (NBC, 2018-present)
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Description: "Three suburban moms orchestrate a local grocery store heist to escape financial ruin and establish independence — together."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 87%

What critics said: "While these are promising storylines, the biggest issue remains the same: The main trio somehow still make the same glaringly stupid decisions they did when they were rookie criminals." — AV Club (season four)

5. "Behind Her Eyes" (Netflix original, 2021)

5. "Behind Her Eyes" (Netflix original, 2021)
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Description: "A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 63%

What critics said: "A fantastically entertaining magic trick of a TV show, so confident in its incongruous genre mashup that you won't be able to look away." — RogerEbert.com

4. "Cocomelon" (YouTube, 2020-present)

4. "Cocomelon" (YouTube, 2020-present)
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Description: "Learn letters, numbers, animal sounds and more with J.J. in this musical series that brings fun times with nursery rhymes for the whole family!"

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: N/A

What critics said: N/A

3. "Murder Among the Mormons" (Netflix original, 2021)

3. "Murder Among the Mormons" (Netflix original, 2021)
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Description: "High-stakes exploits turn deadly — and shake a global church to its core — in this extraordinary true crime story."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%

What critics said: "Amazingly, there's much more of this story to be told, and 'Murder Among the Mormons' does a superb job of telling the tale." — Chicago Sun-Times

2. "iCarly" (Nickelodeon, 2007-2012)

2. "iCarly" (Nickelodeon, 2007-2012)
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Description: "A cyberstar is born when 13-year-old Carly creates an Internet series with a little help from her best friend Sam and neighbor Freddie."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: N/A

What critics said: "The show's success has been laid to many factors ... But I know the real secret: the sweet, gentle, shy, intelligent, unassuming style of its lead, which apparently was not an act after all." — Newsday (season five)

1. "Ginny and Georgia" (Netflix original, 2021-present)

1. "Ginny and Georgia" (Netflix original, 2021-present)
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Description: "Free-spirited Georgia and her two kids, Ginny and Austin, move north in search of a fresh start but find that the road to new beginnings can be bumpy."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68%

What critics said: "The body of the series is a bantery young-adult soap, the head a woman-on-the-edge thriller, and the tail a race melodrama. The creator, Sarah Lampert, must have looked upon her handiwork with proud amusement." — New Yorker (season one)

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