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Must Watch: The Most-Streamed TV Shows and Movies This Week

Need something to binge this weekend? Here are this week's most-watched titles from Apple TV+, Disney+, Hulu, Max, Netflix, Paramount+ With Showtime, Peacock, Prime Video, and more.

By Eric Griffith
& Chandra Steele
Updated April 19, 2024
Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill in "Argylle," now streaming on Apple TV+. Dua Lipa and Henry Cavill in 'Argylle' (Credit: Apple)

Reelgood.com helps people find out whether the TV shows and movies they want to watch are streaming and where to find them. It also pulls data from its millions of monthly users about what they're watching and uses the info to determine the most watched programming in a given week.

Here are the top shows and movies from the past week, on Netflix and across all the major streaming services. We also break out the top 10 lists of TV shows and movies below. Use them to compare your tastes or to get an idea of what you should binge next. You may find a new favorite!


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1. Fallout (Prime Video)

The video game adaption genre continues unabated. This time, the post-apocalyptic adventure game gets a sequential story retread from the creators of Westworld and, so far, it looks like it has the goods. Expect a The Last of Us meets Silo vibe with some actual comedy (that's a compliment).


2. Argylle

Kind of like a Romancing the Stone for the modern spy age. At first glance, Argylle looks like a spy flick with Henry Cavill trying again to go full Man from U.N.C.L.E., but instead it's really about a book author who writes about that character so well that real spy agencies follow everything she pens.


3. The Zone of Interest (Max)

Director Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest examines what it's like to live as if a genocide is not occurring right next door to you, something that is uncomfortably close to current events. It's the fictionalized account of the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family living an idyllic life in the shadow of the concentration camp.


4. Poor Things (Hulu)

Poor Things hit Hulu right before the Oscars and got another boost from Emma Stone's Best Actress win. This Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film is weird on every level and worth watching for how it looks alone, which is why it also took home Oscars for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.


5. Ripley (Netflix)

The Talented Mr. Ripley gets another retelling, this time as a limited series with Andrew Scott as the man himself. In this adaptation, shot in moody black and white, the plot remains the same (Tom Ripley is sent to extricate Dickie Greenleaf from expat life in Italy) but the tone is much different than in the Anthony Minghella film.


6. Shōgun (Hulu)

The reviews on this latest adaptation of the novel of the same name by James Clavell are stellar, with some comparing the thrills to that of the original Game of Thrones. It's still rated 99% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The full series of 10 episodes will conclude by the end of April.


7. Oppenheimer (Peacock)

If you missed out on the in-theater Barbenheimer madness, you can now enjoy both movies from the comfort of your home (Barbie is on Max). "Enjoy" may be the wrong word for Oppenheimer, given that it's about the development of the atomic bomb, but it won the Oscar for Best Picture, so it's probably worth a watch if you have Peacock.


8. Sugar (Apple TV+)

Sugar starts as a neo-noir series and ends somewhere completely different. It stars Colin Farrell as a detective trying to solve a Hollywood-based mystery involving a producer's missing granddaughter. He finds himself mired in the messy secrets of the family while trying to cover up one of his own.


9. Anatomy of a Fall (Hulu)

The Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay this year went to this French legal thriller that looks at the suspicious circumstances behind a man's death by falling and his troubled relationship with his wife.


10. A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+ with Showtime)

It's the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, but not all the aristocrats get killed. One (Ewan McGregor) gets placed under house arrest instead, living for decades in a hotel. McGregor's real-life wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars in the series with him.


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I've been writing about computers, the internet, and technology professionally for over 30 years, more than half of that time with PCMag. I run several special projects including the Readers' Choice and Business Choice surveys, and yearly coverage of the Best ISPs and Best Gaming ISPs, plus Best Products of the Year and Best Brands. I work from my home, and did it long before pandemics made it cool.

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My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance state, vaccination cards, ghost guns, voting, ISIS, art, fashion, film, design, gender bias, and more. You might have seen me on TV talking about these topics or heard me on your commute home on the radio or a podcast. Or maybe you’ve just seen my Bernie meme

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