Here’s what’s hot on Netflix this week

[Andy Meek]

• Many of the series on this week's list of the most-watched shows on Netflix have something in common: Most of them are Netflix originals.
• They include Dark, the show at the top of this week's list that offers viewers a fantastic time-travel-based, sci-fi story, and which also happens to be Netflix's first German-language original series.
• The list, as always, comes from the team at the streaming search engine service Reelgood.

Everybody's favorite horror author took a break from a recent string of tweets lamenting current events in the US right now to praise a show on Netflix that many of you likely still haven't heard of but which is, in actuality, one of the best TV shows anywhere right now. The author is Stephen King, and the show is Dark, Netflix's first German-language original series. The series, which premiered its third and final season on Netflix at the end of June, is a little like one of those indie bands most people haven't heard of but which has an army of insufferably loyal, proselytizing fans. The kind of fans always worried the band is going to hit it big, change, forget about them.

"It’s an incredible series, one of Netflix’s best, and one of science fiction’s best, honestly, especially in the time travel genre," a Forbes writer raved in recent days about the show. "I am probably willing to declare it the best time travel story ever told with how much care and intelligence it devotes to the subject." As we've noted on a few different occasions now, a growing number of you are starting to agree and wake up to this near-perfect addition to Netflix's library of quality international fare. Because, once again, Dark was the most-watched show on Netflix, according to our regular rundowns of what people are watching the most of on the service.

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