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- Each month, Parrot Analytics provides Insider with a list of the most in-demand original streaming shows.
- Parrot's list is ranked by how much more in demand the top series are than the average TV show in the US.
- Parrot Analytics measures audience demand, which reflects the desire of and engagement with, or overall popularity, of a series.
- Netflix's animated "League of Legends" series "Arcane" and Amazon's new fantasy show "The Wheel of Time" debuted on the list.
- But "Stranger Things" returned to the top after Netflix announced that season four will debut summer 2022.
Netflix
Times more in demand than average show: 25.94
Description: "Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster-hunter for hire, journeys toward his destiny in a turbulent world where people often prove more wicked than beasts."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68%
What critics said: "When the worst thing you can say about a series is that every episode ends up being better than the one that preceded it, that leaves an exciting amount of room to grow." — AV Club (season one)
Season two premieres on Netflix December 17. See more insights for "The Witcher."
Netflix
Times more in demand than average show: 30.15
Description: "A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 91%
What critics said: "You is a sly guilty pleasure as such things go. Joe's prolific and wry inner dialogue narrates and critiques the action, ensuring that we see him as weird, funny, appealing, carnal, sexy and menacing." — Salon (Season 3)
Season 3 premiered on Netflix on October 15. See more insights for "You."
Youngkyu Park
Times more in demand than average show: 31.16
Description: "Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 94%
What critics said: "In the end, the devastation left by the game is tangible, leaving the winner in anguish and despair, while those at home are begging for more." — LA Weekly (Season 1)
Season 1 premiered September 17 on Netflix. See more insights for "Squid Game."
Amazon
Times more in demand than average show: 31.2
Description: "Set in an epic fantasy world, The Wheel of Time follows Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), a member of the incredibly powerful all-female organization called the Aes Sedai, as she arrives in the small town of Two Rivers. There, she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young villagers, one of whom is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn ... the one who will either save or destroy humanity."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 84%
What critics said: "While the adaptation isn't a carbon copy of the books, it works well as a complement." — Slate (season one)
Season 1 premiered November 19. See more insights for "The Wheel of Time."
Apple TV+
Times more in demand than average show: 31.35
Description: "Jason Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, a small-time college football coach from Kansas hired to coach a professional soccer team in England, despite having no experience coaching soccer."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 95%
What critics said: "The second season's episodes are just as good — if not better — than the first." — NPR (Season 2)
Season 2 premiered July 23 on Apple TV+. See more insights for "Ted Lasso."
DC Universe
Times more in demand than average show: 32.0
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: 86%
What critics said: "Titans still comes with a harder edge and better action than the average CW superhero soap, but it's risking its heart and wit with a story that clearly favors a small portion of its cast." — Polygon (Season 3)
Season 3 premiered on HBO Max in on August 12. See more insights for "Titans."
Disney Plus
Times more in demand than average show: 37.06
Description: "After the fall of the Empire, a lone gunfighter makes his way through the lawless galaxy."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93%
What critics said: "Where Season 1 sometimes struggled to maintain a coherent arc, though, Season 2 has a higher-stakes narrative thrust that builds momentum more effectively." — Sight and Sound (Season 2)
Season 2 premiered on Disney+ on October 30, 2020. See more insights for "The Mandalorian."
Netflix
Times more in demand than average show: 38.14
Description: "Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%
What critics said: "A classic in the making, and the nail in the coffin of the so-called 'video game curse.'" — IGN (Season 1)
Season 1 premiered on Netflix November 6. See more insights for "Arcane."
Netflix
Times more in demand than average show: 41.18
Description: "When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments."
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93%
What critics said: "Despite the nerdy fun of 'Stranger Things,' its over-all pluckiness, the show reveals how the kids-save-the-day model represents a romantic but ultimately uneven idealism that has echoes in our current political moment." — New Yorker (season three)
Season 3 premiered July 4, 2019, on Netflix. See more insights for "Stranger Things."
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