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- Among the most-watched shows on Netflix for the week of August 20-26 is a new documentary series exploring the golden age of the video game industry through an affectionate, nostalgic lens.
- That Netflix series is called High Score, and the list of the most-watched shows on the streamer right now comes as always from Reelgood, the streaming search engine service that each week shares with BGR what's most popular on the platform at any given time.
- The most-watched show on Netflix this week, once again, was the superhero series The Umbrella Academy.
One of my favorite things on Netflix right now -- in fact, one of the most-watched shows on the streamer at the moment, by one reckoning -- is a new breezy, 6-episode documentary series that's awash in nostalgia for the golden age of video games.
I suppose the coronavirus pandemic made me extra susceptible to High Score, the new Netflix original series in question that debuted on August 19, partly because playing video games (okay, a certain lighthearted Nintendo game) is how many of us have passed the time stuck at home, dealing with quarantines and the like. Apart from, you know, bingeing shows and movies on Netflix.
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Here’s what’s crushing it on Netflix right now originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 20:08:29 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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