Viewership monitoring company Nielsen have published their data for 2022 and Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things (all 34 episodes) took two crowns - most streamed original and most streamed overall program with 52 billion minutes.
Other strong sci-fi performers were Amazon series The Boys and Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, earning 11th and 13th positions for original programs.
In this edition, we take a look at the summer’s sci-fi, look ahead to content coming in 2022 and we talk to sci-fi author C.S. Cooper about the origins of much of the sci-fi we watch.
About a week ago, Eternals became available on Disney+.
We haven't had the opportunity to watch it in full yet but have seen the first half hour and it doesn't impress. Not that our expectations were high based on its low critic scores at cinema release, which have dropped even further since then from 71% to 48%.
While early reviewer impressions for Eternals looked promising, reviews and scores are now coming in and ScreenRant report that they're a bit on the low side.
