Netflix has a reputation for being data-stingy. Even producers and showrunners have found it challenging to determine whether the intended audience is being reached by the work they have produced. But now that Netflix has introduced its Top 10, we may at least get a little glimpse behind the curtain. The list of Netflix's daily Top 10 Most Popular illustrates that its followers have a voracious hunger for everything from highbrow TV to animated children's programmes to all kinds of docuseries. Here are the five most watched Netflix TV programmes and five most watched Netflix movies as of November 29, 2022.

TV Series

1. Wednesday

Year: 2022
Creator: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Stars: Jenna Ortega, Emma Myers, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Christina Ricci, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Percy Hynes White, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán
Genre: Fantasy, Teen
Rating: TV-14

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The Addams Family made their first appearance in The New Yorker in 1938, and ever since then, they have become a mainstay of pop culture thanks to their appearances in a variety of comics, animated television series, and feature films. Family members Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, and Pugsley have long offered a more unconventional sort of entertainment due to their dark and wacky natures, but they continue to be popular figures in society. Little Wednesday Addams, the evil child of misery most known for her iconic braids, sharp wit, and unsettling love of violence, is maybe the most captivating of them all. Therefore, it seems perfect sense that Tim Burton, the creator of the macabre, would lend his name to Netflix's newest gothic icon-focused series.The supernatural horror-comedy series Wednesday provides a crucial solution to the following query: What does Wednesday Addams look like as a teenager? Jenna Ortega's character, Wednesday, a 16-year-old expelled from her public school for unleashing piranhas in the pool, is sent to Nevermore Academy, an affluent boarding school for outcasts. Nevermore is home to a wide range of eccentric individuals, including vampires, werewolves, gorgons, and sirens, as well as anyone odd or possessing exceptional powers. The season's examination of Wednesday's relationships with others around her, which she finds particularly difficult to navigate since it goes so violently against her autonomous life philosophy, is one of the most engaging aspects of the programme. -Deanna Shen

2. 1899

Year: 2022
Creator: Jantje Friese, Baran bo Odar
Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Berardeau
Genre: Mystery, Supernatural Thriller
Rating: TV-MA

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Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese have earned your patience. The cult mystery-thriller Dark's German producers compelled their audience to have faith in them. Very little in Dark's three seasons made sense since Friese and bo Odar primarily kept the audience—which was growing—in the dark. The makers of the new Netflix series 1899 take the same approach in creating a mysterious and frequently perplexing world. The mystery series, which has a sizable cast of European actors, centres on a ship sailing towards America. The captain, Eyk (Andreas Pietschmann), decides to investigate when he comes upon another ship that has been missing for a while. This decision sets off a chain of events that initially seem to make little to no sense.Emily Beecham, who portrays an English passenger who is crucial to the narrative that Friese and bo Odar try to tell, shares most of the scenes with Pietschmann, a Dark alumnus. There is an internal and external disconnect when watching 1899, but both appear to be more than capable of handling the challenge, as does the rest of the vast cast, which is made up of people speaking their respective native languages. 1899 might be too chaotic for first-time Friese and bo Odar viewers to enjoy. Because there aren't any satisfactory solutions and the language isn't coherent, it will lose viewers.But given enough time and energy, the enigma changes and hums. Even if the story is as confusing as many have encountered, it grabs at you, gnaws at you, and wants to burrow within your mind while you wait for the next episode. I'll continue on this trip regardless of what the purpose of this mystery is. My patience and those of many others have been rewarded by Friese and bo Odar. —Michael Frank

3. Dead to Me

Year: 2022
Creator: Liz Feldman
Stars: Christina Applegate, Linda Cardellini, James Marsden, Max Jenkins, Ed Asner
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Rating: TV-MA

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At a bereavement support group, Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) had an awkward first encounter. Three months ago, Jen's husband passed away in a hit-and-run incident. Eight weeks ago, Judy's fiance passed away from a heart attack. They become buddies because of their shared suffering and their love of Facts of Life (Jen is a Jo, Judy a Tootie). Soon Judy will be residing in Jen's guest house, and a lovely friendship is born. But is it? Netflix is adamant about keeping the main surprise of the pilot under wraps. Even though I didn't tell him there was a secret when we were watching it together, my husband was able to figure it out shortly after the show started. But that's okay. The show is a remarkable blend of humour and pathos, and Applegate and Cardellini both give outstanding performances. The show successfully strikes a balance between the two extremes. I enjoy how the twisting Dead to Me keeps me guessing as to what it's actually up to. — Amy Amatangelo

4. The Crown

Years: 2016-2022
Creator: Peter Morgan
Stars: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby, Jeremy Northam, Victoria Hamilton, Anton Lesser, Matthew Goode, Olivia Colman, Emma Corrin, Josh O’Connor
Genre: Historical drama
Rating: TV-MA

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The opulent treatment of Queen Elizabeth II's reign in its first two seasons by creator Peter Morgan depends on Claire Foy's totally enthralling performance as the flinty monarch, the flawless period realism, and a sense of historical scope that surpasses its antecedents. Netflix's lavish celebration of the monarchy begins in 1964 and romps through the next two decades in its third and fourth parts.To match the new time period, a new ensemble is introduced to us, including Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, Margaret as Helena Bonham Carter, Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, Erin Doherty as Princess Anne, and eventually Emma Corrin as Diana, Princess of Wales. The fifth season of the programme is particularly concerned with dealing with depressing reality and considering mistakes.Characters examine a monarchy in disarray, numerous failed royal marriages, and shifting social roles in Britain. The new episodes, which explore the flaws and tribulations of the Royal family as one century ends and another begins, are, although having a plot that is equally as chaotic as that of the previous season, more subtle and nuanced. The end result is extremely lovely. The Crown's current season is the most intriguing thus far, even pensive in its outlook and method. The pieces are completely smashed, the fissures are visible. The programme is eager to examine the mess and the history and determine how we came to be in this situation. — Chris Panella and Allison Keene

5. The Unbroken Voice

Year: 2022
Stars: Mariana Gómez, José Ramón Barreto, Yuri Vargas
Genre: Biopic, Drama, Romance
Rating: TV-MA

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This music biopic series recounts the extraordinary rags-to-riches journey of Colombian singer Arelys Henao and is based on her early years.

Movies

1. The Noel Diary

Year: 2022
Director: Charles Shyer
Starring: Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Essence Atkins, Bonnie Bedilia, James Remar
Genre: Romance, Christmas
Rating: PG

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This year, Netflix is producing PG-rated Christmas romances, so watch out, Hallmark Channel. In The Noel Diary, Justin Hartley plays a successful author who returns home for the holidays while Barrett Doss is on the hunt for her birth mother.

2. Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich

Year: 2022
Director: Lisa Bryant, Maiken Baird
Genre: True-crime documentary
Rating: TV-MA

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The most recent true-crime documentary on Netflix focuses on Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking conviction. Maxwell was Jeffrey Epstein's infamous sidekick and a well-connected socialite.

3. The Swimmers

Year: 2022
Director: Sally El Hosaini
Starring: Manal Issa, Nathalie Issa, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ahmed Malek, Ali Suliman, Kinda Alloush, James Krishna Floyd, Nahel Tzegai, Akuc Bol
Genre: Sports biopic
Rating: PG-13

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Yusra and Sara Mardini, played by sisters Manal and Nathalie Issa, are real-life sisters and competitive swimmers who used their swimming prowess to bring other immigrants to safety as they fled war-torn Syria aboard a boat across the Aegean Sea. Yusra trained in Germany and later participated in the Olympics. Their coach, Sven, is portrayed by Army of Thieves actor Matthias Schweighöfer.

4. Slumberland

Year: 2022
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jason Momoa, Marlow Barkley, Chris O’Dowd, Kyle Chandler, Weruche Opia, India De Beaufort, Humberly González
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Rating: PG

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If such a broad statement can be made, describing what our dreams look like is asking for difficulty, but I can clearly state what I hope our dreams don't look like: I hope they don't resemble Slumberland in the least. Nemo in Slumberland, a beloved comic book by Winsor McCay, gets deadened and dulled by director Francis Lawrence, who adapts the early 20th century silliness of McCay to the "dark, and in a vast room" aesthetic of contemporary VFX. The loose version of Slumberland is Disneyfied in plot and subject, and it self-stifles a weak imagination that only just keeps up with its pictures. Nemo (Marlow Barkley) from Slumberland leads a carefree existence managing a lighthouse with her gorgeous, beard-sporting, close-knit widowed father Kyle Chandler. Chandler's ideal parental persona is doomed in the same lovely yet ineluctably tragic start that comes packaged with every children's film. Nemo frequently finds herself escaping into the dream world when her father passes away and she is left in the care of her stiff urbanite uncle Philip (Chris O'Dowd), where she can momentarily follow her father alongside a dream-being who frequently appeared alongside her father in bedtime stories. Flip (Jason Momoa), this dream-being, is supposed to be the driving force behind the entire picture. Momoa, who resembles Rob Zombie dressed as Willy Wonka, appears to have this task written clearly on his forehead. He has several pointless wibbly-wobbly Jack Sparrow tics, is growly and quirky, and struggles to speak through his Beauty and the Beast fangs. While Momoa is similarly unprepared to provide the Jack Black-like pop his karate techniques, heel clicks, and heroic poses try to conjure, Barkley is obviously out of her element as our wide-eyed heroine. Jake Oller

5. Where the Crawdads Sing

Year: 2022
Director: Olivia Newman
Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer, Jr., David Strathairn
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: PG-13

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You undoubtedly anticipate that Where the Crawdads Sing will be performed in regions of America where you can buy some twang for your money from the awkward title. The second film by director Olivia Newman, which is based on the best-selling novel by Delia Owens, definitely lives up to the Kentucky Fried idea. Its portrayals of outsiders, romance, and murder all share the same cartoonish unreality as the cast of performers who alternately wear Colonel Sanders' trademark white goatee, pressed suit, black string tie, and half-frame glasses.The movie struggles and stumbles, bogged down in an ideological muck as tasty as its love triangle, its naturalist feminism pulling down the soapy drama that throws a lifeline. The movie descends into the marsh using Owens' source material as its sand base. There has been the discovery of a young, well-bred hunk dead in that swamp in Barkley Cove, North Carolina.Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a stranger from the town, is held responsible. Since everyone in town refers to her as "Marsh Girl," she actually faces charges. Whether she committed the crime is unknown. She slept with the hottie, right? Is it the sluggish marshland or a lesson I'm about to learn? Where the Crawdads Sing is a weak, predictable novel that is just broad enough to explain why it was such a success as a half-lurid paperback. — Jacob Oller