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Every week, Parrot Analytics provides Business Insider with a list of the nine most in-demand TV shows on streaming services in the US. The data is based on "demand expressions," Parrot Analytics' globally standardized TV demand measurement unit. 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, for instance.
Below are this week's nine most popular original shows on Netflix and other streaming services:
Description: "An extraordinary discovery inspires two human princes and an elven assassin to team up on an epic quest to bring peace to their warring lands."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%
What critics said: "Only pushes the story further and deeper while expanding the world ever wider, and solidifying The Dragon Prince as one of the great animated fantasies of our time." — Forbes (season 3)
Season 3 premiered on Netflix November 22.
8. "Harley Quinn" (DC Universe)
Average demand expressions: 31,695,319
Description: "Harley Quinn has finally broken things off with the Joker and attempts to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City in this adult animated action-comedy series which also features Poison Ivy and a whole cast of heroes and villains, old and new, from the DC Universe."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 88%
What critics said: "Ultimately, Harley Quinn might be an economical watch, but it feels expansive, partially because the supporting cast pops with every shade of personality." — Uproxx (season 1)
Season 1 premiered on November 29 on DC Universe.
7. "The Crown" (Netflix)
Average demand expressions: 33,406,060
Description: "This drama follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 91%
What critics said: "The Crown season three feels very different from the first two seasons. Its characters are more settled into the world in which they belong, and each episode is presented as a stand-alone with very few running threads." — Digital Spy (Season 3)
Season 3 premiered November 17 on Netflix.
6. "Lucifer" (Netflix)
Average demand expressions: 37,031,218
Description: "Bored with being the Lord of Hell, the devil relocates to Los Angeles, where he opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 4): 100%
What critics said: "The more I think about it, the more I stand by my belief that the majority of season four is among the very best episodes the Lucifer has to offer." — AV Club (season 4)
Season 4 premiered on Netflix May 8.
5. "The Expanse" (Amazon Prime Video)
Average demand expressions: 38,075,980
Description: "With the Ring Gates now open to thousands of new planets, a blood-soaked gold rush begins, igniting new conflicts between Earth, Mars, and the Belt. Meanwhile, on one unexplored planet, the Rocinante crew gets caught in a violent clash between an Earth mining corporation and desperate Belter settlers as deadly, new threats from the protomolecule emerge."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 4): 100%
What critics said: "'The Expanse' takes it as an opportunity to reinvent itself as needed and preserve what's worked all along. It's a show that spends plenty of time dissecting the complications with changes in the very nature of gravity." — Indiewire (season 4)
Season 4 premiered on Prime Video December 13.
4. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon Prime Video)
Average demand expressions: 41,412,581
Description: "Midge and Susie discover that life on tour with Shy is glamorous but humbling, and they learn a lesson about show business they'll never forget. Joel struggles to support Midge while pursuing his own dreams. Abe embraces a new mission and Rose learns she has talents of her own."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 82%
What critics said: "It can be a fun diversion, sweet in its willful irrelevancy and alluring in its jovial rhythms." — Boston Globe (Season 3)
Season 3 premiered December 6 on Amazon Prime Video.
3. "Titans" (DC Universe)
Average demand expressions: 60,004,135
Description: "'Titans' follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find belonging in a gritty take on the classic Teen Titans franchise. Dick Grayson and Rachel Roth, a special young girl possessed by a strange darkness, get embroiled in a conspiracy that could bring Hell on Earth. Joining them along the way are the hot-headed Starfire and lovable Beast Boy. Together they become a surrogate family and team of heroes."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 85%
What critics said: "Despite leaning a little too hard on 'gritty' at times, Titans remains a solid show with much to recommend." — Starburst (Season 2)
Season 2 premiered on DC Universe September 6.
2. "Stranger Things" (Netflix)
Average demand expressions: 67,710,026
Description: "When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 89%
What critics said: "The only nostalgia you'll feel watching Stranger Things 3 is for the novelty and wide-eyed pizazz of the 2016 original (and, to a lesser extent, its carbon copy 2017 follow-up). " — The Telegraph (Season 3)
Season 3 premiered July 4 on Netflix.
1. "The Mandalorian" (Disney Plus)
Average demand expressions: 107,880,522
Description: "After the fall of the Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the lawless galaxy."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 1): 94%
What critics said: "Favreau is as brilliant a fanboy writer as he is a fanboy director, and in Filoni, a true padawan to Star Wars creator George Lucas, he has found a great collaborator. Between them they might have simply made a great TV show." — Sydney Morning Herald (Season 1)
