The Most Watched Shows on Netflix So Far This Month

“Ozark” is about a financial planner from Chicago who takes his family to the Missouri Ozarks to launder money for a Mexican cartel. He buys various businesses to launder the cash and in the process pulls members of his family into the scheme. The series has won three Emmy Awards, two of them for Julia Garner for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

In this reality competition series, players who never (or very rarely) meet face to face use a proprietary app to jockey for popularity. Participants often “catfish” – posing as other people – and celebrities are sometimes involved. In Season 4, the celebs are former Spice Girls Mel B and Emma Bunton (Scary Spice and Baby Spice, respectively).

“Heartstopper” is a British series about two boys who meet at a secondary school and become friends – and whose friendship leads to romance. The series is based on the best-selling novels by Alice Oseman.

This Canadian series – created by and starring Catherine Reitman, daughter of director Ivan Reitman (“Ghostbusters,” “Meatballs,” “Kindergarten Cop,” etc. – is a sitcom revolving around the challenges and intrigues faced by a group of working mothers who originally meet in a mommy-and-me group.

Part courtroom drama, part erotic thriller, part commentary on the concept of “consent,” “Anatomy of a Scandal: Limited Series” was about a sex scandal involving the British elite. Sienna Miller (“American Sniper”) and Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) star in the series created by veteran TV producer/writer David E. Kelley (“Chicago Hope,” “Boston Legal).”

This is a reality series about the lives of young, flamboyant, female real estate brokers selling the priciest of the priciest real estate in Los Angeles. The series will return for a sixth season.

“Grace and Frankie,” the Netflix comedy series about two longtime rivals who become friends after their husbands become lovers, concluded its seven-season run this year. The series featured the talents of Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, and Martin Sheen, all Emmy Award. The series was created by Marta Kauffman, who was a writer and producer of the long-running sitcom “Friends.”

Shonda Rhimes, who helmed hits such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” is the showrunner of “Bridgerton,” a period piece set in the 19th century that is more fantasy than history (a string quartet plays an instrumental version of Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next.”)

The ubiquitous David E. Kelley created this series based on the novels by Michael Connelly (“Bosch”) about an L.A. defense attorney whose office is a chauffeur-driven Lincoln. Matthew McConaughey played the role of attorney Mickey Haller in a big-screen spinoff from the books, but here the part is played by Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (last seen in the Billy Bob Thornton-starring legal series “Goliath.”)

Starring Laura Linney and Jason Bateman – and offering a breakout role to Julia Garner as the feisty local character Ruth Langmore – “Ozark” was a dark story of crime and corruption involving a financial adviser from Chicago who launders money for a Mexican drug cartel on the shores of Missouri’s idyllic Lake of the Ozarks. The final season, broken up into two seven-episode parts, placed in the Netflix top 10 in 81 countries.