Rotten Tomatoes named the most popular series of the last 25 years

Aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes celebrates its 25th anniversary and in honor of this publishes the list of the most popular TV shows for the same 25 years. It included really the brightest series that gathered a huge audience, caused controversy among the audience and received the highest ratings from critics.

Most Reviewed Series

The Walking Dead project received the most reviews - 4,130 reviews from critics for 11 seasons of the show. This project, based on a comic book series written by Robert Kirkman, has gathered the largest number of post-apocalyptic and zombie-themed fans.

Most Reviewed Season

Here is the expected winner - eighth season 'Game of Thrones' from HBO, which caused extremely conflicting reviews and left a lot of questions no answer. If the show opened its first season with an impressive 224 critical reviews, it tripled that number by the finale.

Highest rated on Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes issues so-called certificates of freshness, reflecting the success of the project based on reviews from critics from various sites. This score is measured as a percentage and cannot exceed 100. That is the score now holds the first season of the series "Murders in the same building." 100% with 107 reviews is an impressive result.

With the same rating, but fewer reviews, the series "Rubbish"(99 reviews), "Bear" (77 reviews), "Tricks" (74 reviews) and "Hornets" (74 reviews).

Highest Rated Season of a Series

It's about audience ratings. In this case, Rotten Tomatoes only counted seasons with over 10,000 reviews. And among them, the highest rating was for the first season of Stranger Things - 96%.

Here, the editors singled out the season with the most ratings - this is the first season "Witcher». It has over 22,000 reviews but has a lower freshness score of 90%.

Most Popular Netflix Show

Everything is predictable here too: the most popular series on Netflix is ​​“Squid game». It has 1.65 billion watch hours in its first 28 days. This is a record not only for the site, but for the industry as a whole.

Following It Comes: The Fourth Season"very strange things" (1.35 billion hours), "Wednesday"(1.23 billion); Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (856.2 million hours) and Paper House finale (792.2 million).

longest series

The melodrama "Days of Our Lives" was named the longest series. The project has existed since 1965 and is still being released today. Now it includes almost 60 seasons and over 14,000 episodes.

Separately, Rotten Tomatoes noted the huge success of the series "Friends”, which is simply not to be missed, summing up the results of the past 25 years.