The best streaming TV show right now is making me want to learn chess – BGR

• Top this week’s list of the most viewed TV shows on all major streaming platforms like Netflix The queen’s gambit, a training series on a chess prodigy.
• Netflix The queen’s gambit it’s so popular right now that it has inspired a kind of rush to toy stores, which are quickly selling chess sets.
• This data on the most viewed TV shows comes from the Reelgood streaming search service.

Just over a month away from Christmas, chess sets are flying off the shelves both real and virtual right now as players are rushing to get their hands on one to such an extent that it is somewhat reminiscent of the initial pandemic rush. toilet paper. Okay, maybe that’s a little extreme, but not by much, especially when you talk to sources like BMO Capital Markets toy analyst Gerrick Johnson, who passed away a few weeks ago when trying to find a particular Cardinal chess set. . “It was sold out everywhere I went,” he said NPR.

Same story at Goliath Games, according to company marketing director Mary Higbe. Its sales right now are skyrocketing, up more than 1,000% from last year, thanks in part to the fact that it sells six different chess sets (like the Pressman sets that come in red boxes and are a sight familiar in the toy aisle in a store like Walmart, for NPR). What happen? The answer, oddly enough, can be found in our latest list of the most watched TV shows on all of the best streaming services right now. In a word, three words actually, the motivating factor is The queen’s gambit – the latest unlikely hit that will become a pop culture masterpiece on Netflix.

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This series is a fascinating drama, based on the novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, in which we see an abandoned orphan who learns to play chess at the feet of the janitor of his orphanage and who becomes a dominant and unstoppable prodigy. of a player. According to Netflix’s notes on The queen’s gambit, which debuted in October: “A young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) discovers a surprising talent for chess as she develops an addiction to state-provided tranquilizers as a sedative for children.

“Haunted by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms herself into an extraordinarily skilled and glamorous outcast determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.”

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For the week of November 12-18, this series was the most watched TV show on all major streaming platforms. This is according to streaming search engine service Reelgood, which shared with BGR the latest ranking of what its several million monthly users are watching on the platform.

Suffice it to say, The queen’s gambit will end up on a bunch of year-end best lists for the best streaming shows of 2020. After all, how many other series right now can you point to having this kind of impact? According to Spin Master’s vice president of marketing Elizabeth LoVecchio, her toy company – whose classic games division has a market share of 70% in the United States – has seen its chess sales increase by three figures.

As for the rest of the streaming series that are among the most watched right now, here is the full list of tp 10 of the hottest TV shows for the week of November 12-18 (courtesy of Reelgood):

1. The queen’s gambit
2. The Mandalorian
3. The Undoing
4. Grey’s Anatomy
5. Yellowstone
6. Fargo
7. The crown
8. The boys
9. Rick and Morty
10. Wayne

Andy is a reporter in Memphis who also contributes to outlets like Fast Company and The Guardian. When he’s not writing about tech, he can be found protective leaning over his burgeoning vinyl collection, as well as nurturing his Whovianism and bingeing on a variety of TV shows you probably don’t like.