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After spending two weeks in the runner-up spot, Stranger Things is back at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals.

For the Week of Aug. 1, the Duffer Bros.’ Netflix supernatural megahit amassed 1.42 billion minutes viewed across 34 total episodes. Netflix’s Virgin River was very close behind at No. 2, with 1.39 billion minutes viewed across 42 episodes.

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Netflix’s Virgin River and Stranger Things repeated in the top two spots on Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals.

For the week of week of July 25, the soon-to-be-more-diverse Virgin River was again No. 1 with 2.4 billion minutes viewed across 42 total episodes. Stranger Things followed with 1.84 billion minutes viewed across 34 total episodes.

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Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” broke into Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming rankings during the week of July 25- July 31, landing in the No. 10 spot among streaming originals.

“Only Murders” entered the original streaming programs chart during the week that its sixth episode of Season 2, “Performance Review,” dropped.

The comedy, which at that time consisted of 16 available episodes in total across its first and second seasons, was viewed for 391 million minutes between July 25 and July 31. That gave “Only Murders in the Bulding” the No. 10 spot among streaming originals , which it took by knocking Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys.”

Looking at Nielsen’s list for acquired programs, shows that are usually library content available via a streaming platform, “Game of Thrones” notably came in at No. 7 due to streams on HBO Max three weeks ahead of the “House of the Dragon” premiere on HBO.

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Virgin River logged a second week as the most-streamed title in the U.S., according to Nielsen, and Stranger Things and The Gray Man also repeated in second and third place, respectively.

The entire Top 10 for July 25-31 was comprised of Netflix films and series, which used to be a weekly pattern but has become more rare. Because of the delay built into Nielsen’s reporting process, streaming numbers for House of the Dragon on HBO Max will not be out for another three weeks, but that title is one of a few in August likely to disrupt the all-Netflix nature of the chart.

Viewership for Virgin River, which just added a fourth season, fell just 9 from the prior week to come just shy of 2.4 billion minutes of streaming. Stranger Things, most of whose fourth season premiered in May, slipped 19, while Russo Bros. spy action movie The Gray Man declined...

It is absolutely no secret that media has been trending towards streaming for a long time now, but there is still a gigantic section of the population that watches TV through cable or satellite. But for the first time ever, streaming has actually overtaken cable to become the top dog, signaling that the era of streaming dominance and cord cutting has taken a larger foothold with a wider section of the population. There's no turning back now.

New: Streaming surpassed cable for the first time ever with 34.8 share of U.S. TV viewership in July.

Now that 28 days have passed since the premiere of “Stranger Things” Season 4 Volume 2, it’s official: the season did not break the record of “Squid Game” to become Netflix’s most popular season of television ever.

The streamer calculates this statistic based on hours viewed during a title’s first 28 days of availability. In the case of the segmented release of “Stranger Things” Season 4, Volume 1’s viewership in the 28 days after its debut was combined with Volume 2’s viewership viewership after 28 days — meaning that viewership of Volume 1 during Volume 2’s eligible window did not contribute towards the final count.

Ultimately, “Stranger Things” Season 4 ended its run with 1.4 billion hours viewed, compared to “Squid Game’s” 1.7 billion. Important to note is the running time of both seasons: “Squid Game” is approximately 8 hours long in total, while “Stranger Things” Season 4 is approximately 13 hours long, but the 5-hour advantage of the Duffer brothers...

Titled after a 2012 Rolling Stone article that profiled the notorious internet troll Hunter Moore, Netflix’s three-part miniseries “The Most Hated Man on the Internet” is, surprisingly, not a hyperbolic statement. Recounting the rise and fall of Moore’s infamous IsAnyoneUp.com — a user-submitted revenge porn website that linked to social media accounts, doxxing people in the process — the closest corollary is, perhaps, Netflix’s own 2019 doc series “Don’t F**k with Cats.” Like that series (shares producers here), ‘Most Hated Man’ narrows in on how online culture spills out into the real world, often with malicious intent.

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Netflix is no stranger to true-crime docuseries, and the streaming giant is back on the scene with a handful of new titles this summer, including "The Most Hated Man on the Internet." The series centers on the crimes of Hunter Moore, sometimes referred to as "The King of Revenge Porn," who created the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site hosted thousands of pictures, many sexually suggestive or nude, taken by vengeful ex-partners and shared without the victim's consent.

For over a year, Moore profited from the pictures and created a small empire exploiting relationships that turned sour, but his invasive, money-making scheme didn't last forever. So here is where Moore is in 2022.

Who Is Hunter Moore?

Moore was born in 1986 and started building businesses at a young age after getting kicked out of his private Christian school for getting into fights, according to a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone.

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Netflix’s The Most Hated Man on the Internet closes by explaining why its title character only ever appears in archival footage. “Hunter Moore initially agreed to take part in this series but later declined our invitation,” the screen reads. “We decided to use his image anyway.”

The irony is thick — considering Moore once catapulted himself to fame by capitalizing on images of unwilling people — and easy to smirk at. Maybe a bit too easy. The docuseries’ three hourlong episodes go by quickly, thanks to its streamlined storytelling and brisk pacing, and it delivers on both the white-hot outrage and the grim satisfaction promised by the downfall of a dude who really had it coming. But The Most Hated Man on the Internet falls short of the ambition needed to lend it real, lasting heft.

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