These were the most-watched shows on Netflix in May – is your favorite on the list?

[Andy Meek]

• Ricky Gervais didn't expect to front one of the most-watched shows on Netflix in May -- because if he did, he wouldn't have been conditional about whether or not he'd make another season of After Life, his half-hour drama focused on the story of a grieving widower.
• As it turns out, Season 2 of the series was so popular last month that Gervais has gone ahead and announced he's started work on a season 3 of After Life.
• He's also reached a production deal with Netflix that calls for new scripted series as well as standup specials.

In taking a look at the most-watched shows on Netflix over the past month, I was utterly pleased to learn the fate of a series I quickly binged when it was released towards the end of April -- and which many of you did, too, considering that it's at the top of our new ranking for the month.

Season 2 of the Ricky Gervais-led series After Life actually debuted on the streamer in April, but it was close enough to the end of that month that I suspect many of you were like me and didn't get around to it until May. I guess, with the crappy state of the world right now, I'm more susceptible to sappy art -- either that or Gervais's performance as a grieving widower who works as a small-town newspaper journalist in After Life is even better than I realize. Either way, I found the series' sophomore season to be the perfect quarantine binge, and so have the millions of monthly users of the streaming search engine service Reelgood, which shared with us their data showing which Netflix series were the most popular among its users for the month of May.

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