The 10 most watched series on platforms so far this year

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The year reaches its halfway point and in the lists of most watched series on platforms offered by companies such as

there is everything: long-awaited premieres, new seasons of already established productions and veteran fictions that are still embedded in the collective imagination and they refuse to go out of style when you pick up the remote.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+)

The long-awaited return of

to the skin of the Jedi Obi-Wan (and

's to the scorched Darth Vader, although not as much) has culminated with incredible audiences... and some equally fierce critics.

Directed by

, the plot is set a decade after the end of

's last film

in the franchise- and puts the hopeless protagonist in doubt as to whether to remain in his self-imposed exile on the desert planet. of Tatooine or come to the rescue of little princess Leia Organa (

).

To subscribe to Disney + can be accessed here.

Stranger Things 4 (Netflix)

The fourth season of the science fiction and horror television series set in Hawkins, Indiana, was also one of the most anticipated premieres of the year.

But in his case, critics and the public go hand in hand: the epic and the terror that

have imprinted on the experiences of the young protagonists has convinced one and the other.

The story takes place half a year after the fight at the Starcourt Mall, with Eleven (

), Dustin (

), Will (

) and company trying to deal with the aftermath of what they experienced apart as a group.

The season has been split into two parts: Volume 2 will premiere on July 1 with two full-length episodes.

Friends (HBO Max Spain)

The series created by

and David Crane is still that nice and warm place where you always want to be.

It doesn't matter that 18 years have passed since its last chapter was broadcast (and 28 since the first).

The 236 episodes that unfold the exciting lives of Monica (

), Rachel (

), Joey (

), Chandler (

), Ross (

) and Phoebe (

) throughout and width of New York continues to hook viewers of any age and condition.

You can subscribe to HBO Max Spain here.

What's Coming (Amazon Prime Video)

In Spain we also have our fetish homeland series.

And one of them is

, spiritual and material heiress of

.

Created by brothers

and

for Telecinco.

The life of the peculiar and varied neighbors who live and work in the Mirador de Montepinar residential complex has been dazzling viewers since 2007, and since 2020 they can also see it on Amazon Prime Video.

Characters like Amador (

) and Antonio Recio (

) have passed the history of television, as have many of his catchphrases, such as "Would you like salami?"

or -"Mariscos Recio, the sea at the best price!".

Amazon Prime Video subscription is available here.

Woman Scented Coffee (Netflix)

This

of the 1994 telenovela has seduced the respectable by giving directly what it promises: a soap opera in its purest form, the kind that turns its protagonist into a tabloid sex symbol.

The series tells the love story between Gaviota (

), a farmer, and Sebastián (

), the scion of an aristocratic coffee-producing family recently arrived from New York.

Both feel an uncontrollable attraction and a heartbreakingly impossible love, because he is engaged to Lucía Sanclemente (

), an ambitious woman who is really only with Sebastián for economic interest.

Euphoria (HBO Max Spain)

Drugs, sex, and violence punctuate this teen drama created by

, who is based on the Israeli series of the same name.

Since its premiere on HBO, everything has been praised, both for the series (8.4 on average on IMDB) and for the actors

(awarded an Emmy) and

, who has become the new Hollywood muse.

Of course, parents with adolescent children, who see her under her responsibility, lest they end up not letting their offspring see the sunlight for a little while.

You can subscribe to HBO Max Spain here.

The Simpsons (Disney+)

The most famous family in Springfield has already accumulated

behind them.

A total of 728 episodes that consolidate its position as the series with the most episodes broadcast in

in the United States, far exceeding the 635 of

, the

CBS

known in Spain as

.

And that has been talking about the decline of the family created by

for 20 years.

But Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie resist, and the homeland audience joins them.

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This is us (Amazon Prime Video)

From one family to another that has also earned the affection of the respectable, as evidenced by its 106 episodes spread over six seasons, they give a good account of this.

And that in their first appearances it costs something to empathize so much with the self-styled

, the brothers Kevin (

), Kate (

) and Randall (

);

as with his parents, Jack (

) and Rebecca Pearson (

).

But its creator,

, cleverly plays with

and the surprise endings until the viewer is hooked as if it were a soap opera... but if they have the impression that they are watching one.

Amazon Prime Video subscription is available here.

Moon Knight (Disney+)

In the comics, Marc Spector is the Moon Knight.

But so is Steve Grant.

And Jack Lockley if the circumstance arises.

On the small screen, it is

who gives himself the pleasure of playing the different personalities of this superhero with a shaky life in the vignettes that in his adaptation openly embraces his Egyptian side.

The god Kohnsu, with the immeasurable voice of

in his original version, does not stop giving poor Grant-Spector a sack, everything is to stop the villain of the show, an

who has a great time the skin of Arthur Harrow, so insubstantial in the comics that the actor can take it to the desired hue without raising blisters.

To subscribe to Disney + can be accessed here.

The Big Band Theory (HBO Max Spain)

The series that normalized the geek world ended up becoming the heir to

in terms of identification and knowledge of the characters.

The viewer ends up intuiting how each of them will end up reacting, which helps that, as with the colleagues at Central Perk, their chapters are consumed with greed... whether they have already been seen or not.

The sitcom created by

(writer, director and producer) established the careers of

,

and

.

They were Sheldon, Penny and Leonard, pillars of a series in which physical theories and pop culture went hand in hand in 279 episodes and 12 seasons that led to 52 Emmy nominations.

You can subscribe to HBO Max Spain here.

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