HBO Max is crushing it right now because of shows like this one

[Andy Meek]

• Topping our list of the most-watched TV shows across the major streaming platforms this week is HBO Max's The Flight Attendant.
• The show stars Kaley Cuoco as the flight attendant in question who wakes up in a hotel room next to a dead body.
• The Flight Attendant is based on a New York Times-bestselling book of the same name.

Unless you've been living under the proverbial rock, you're probably aware by now that HBO Max has been dominating entertainment industry news headlines this week even if you're only a casual consumer of pop culture and not necessarily a ravenous news junkie. It has to do with the decision from HBO Max's parent company to debut every single Warner Bros. movie in 2021 on the streaming platform on the same day that each movie is released in theaters. With that one stroke, the company has vaunted its nascent streaming platform into the top tier -- the ranks of which are dominated by the likes of Netflix and Disney+ -- while also leading to much hand-wringing over the future of movie theaters, and whether this puts one more nail in their coffin. Or even welds that coffin shut for good.

A streaming platform is nothing without quality original content, though, and HBO Max is no doubt betting that its small-but-growing stable of HBO Max Originals (along with third-party, licensed content) will help keep viewers sticking around in addition to the big movies debuting on the platform next year. Along those lines, there's a fantastic HBO Max original series that actually tops our newest weekly list of the most-watched TV shows from your favorite streaming services -- and you can read on to learn more about it as well as to get the low-down on what else is dominating the streaming chart this week.

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