There were many crimes this week.
Picking your latest binge can feel like plucking a needle out of a haystack, with the amount of new and returning series making it even more complicated by the number of recommendations you receive from friends and social media on any given day.
Where should we start? It is not a measurement of quality, but at least know what most people have been tuning into. To narrow down the top 10, we used Reel Good, which pulls viewing figures from streaming services in the U.S. and UK.
Here are the most popular TV shows this week. Let's go...
Mark? Steven? Credit: Disney
Even though a superhero is less well-known, he is still popular. Steven Grant, a museum gift shop worker, is forced to share a body with anti-heroMarc Spector, who is controlled by a mean Egyptian moon God, in Moon Knight. Chaos!
Moon Knight stands out as an original and entertaining TV show that could equally delight hardcore fans and those who just want to know what TV show everyone is going to be talking about. Moon Knight has elements of Fight Club, Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Doctor Who, all rolled up into a sleek and beautifully shot package that is sure to become a social media obsession.
Moon Knight is on Disney+.
Protect them at all costs. Credit: GREG LEWIS / AMC / SONY PICTURES TELEVISION
Better Call Saul is back for its sixth and final season, two years after it last aired. Bob Odenkirk reprises his role as Saul Goodman, and it has been confirmed that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will also be in the show.
The stakes have never been higher for several key players. Reputations, relationships, and lives are on the line, and mounting tension in the first two episodes alone exposes seldom-seen sides of characters we thought we had all figured out.
Better Call Saul is available to watch on the internet.
Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, and Britt Lower in “Severance.” Credit: Apple TV+
Adam Scott plays Mark, a man who opts for an implant that allows his work memories to be completely cut off from his home life, in Apple TV+'s Severance. The impressive supporting cast includes John Turturro, Christopher Walken, andPatricia Arquette.
The first must-watch Apple TV+ show of the year is Severance, a visually fascinating work of art, an intriguing mystery, and an anti capitalist take on toxic labor practices.
You can watch Severance on Apple TV+.
Shake on it: Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott and Imogen Poots as Autumn. Credit: Richard Foreman / Prime Video
Prime Video's biggest new show has made its way into this week's most-streamed list. Brian Watkins is a neo-Western star who plays a Wyoming Rancher who discovers a black hole in his pasture. There are a lot of things here to catch people's attention, including the arrival of a strange drifter, a family member's disappearance, and the ongoing trouble with a rival ranching family.
You can watch Outer Range on Prime Video.
Game on. Credit: Adrienn Szabo / Paramount+
You already know about it. Steven Kane and Kyle Killen adapted the popular Xbox video game series for the small screen, and it stars Natascha McElhone, Pablo Schreiber, and Yerin Ha. The story follows Master Chief, a genetically engineered soldier, as he goes up against The Covenant.
The first two hours of the show introduce the world, the key characters, and the dominant themes. We are given hooks to hang our interest on. They reveal in many ways, but they leave a lot of questions unanswered. It feels weird to say that, but it is true that Halo is good TV.
You can watch it on Paramount Plus.
The Whitehouses: Sienna Miller and Rupert Friend. Credit: Ana Cristina Blumenkron
The novel of the same name tells the story of the wife of a Conservative politician who is accused of sexual assault by an aide. People have been watching this mini-series, but the reviews are mixed.
You can watch the show on the streaming service.
Crime time in the '90s: Credit: James Lisle / HBO Max
Tokyo Vice is based on the first-hand account of a U.S. journalist in Tokyo in the 90s. The stars of this dark crime thriller are Ken Watanabe, Shô and others.
Tokyo Vice is available to watch on the internet.
Not pictured: horses, slow or fast. Credit: Apple TV+
Slow Horses is a spy thriller that follows a group of disgraced MI5 workers who have been put out to pasture in a department for agents with no future career prospects. Gary Oldman, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden, and the rest of the cast are in this one, and you can watch the first 20 minutes on the internet to help you make your decision.
Slow Horses is available on Apple TV+.
Credit: BBC America / David Emery
We are not sure where the time has gone, but Killing Eve is a tense spy crime film about British intelligence agent Eve Polastri and her cat-and-mouse game with an assassin. The show was at its best in its first season, but if these award-winning actresses can keep us hooked for season after season, Killing Eve may string us along for season after season.
Killing Eve is available to watch on both the UK and U.S. websites.
This person is the CIA's best shot? Credit: HBO
Steve Yockey's dark comedy thriller is back for a second outing, a year after the messy events of show's first season which saw her waking up in a hotel room with a dead man she may or may not have. The show's impressive silliness is back in full force, even though the story this time is completely new.
If The Flight Attendant is getting its priorities across, the show only works if you accept that the most important person on the planet is blond. Multiple people are after her, someone out there is deliberately framing her, and she constantly finds herself in the wrong place for legal absolution but the right place to fuel rampant main character syndrome. Her alcoholism and recovery are handled poorly between the Cassie-clone gimmick, an unwieldy mother-daughter backstory, and multiple characters who clock her erratic behavior but either enable or antagonize her out of what appears to be pure malice.
The Flight Attendant is available on the internet.
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