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What? Ted Lasso is really popular. The Morning Show too. Coda won best picture. All three of those are pretty mainstream. Not Netflix show levels of mainstream but certainly not limited to the blogosphere.

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Those shows/movies barely register when compared with Stranger Things: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16586976...

Stranger Things is literally the most popular streaming show ever.

That's like comparing The Larry Sanders show to Seinfeld.

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This isn't exactly an apples-to-oranges comparison. Stranger Things had the advantage of Netflix being a dominant player in the streaming market for many years. Let's compare Ted Lasso with House of Cards, Netflix's first foray into creating an original series:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Ted Lasso is doing pretty good!

Anecdotal, but I've never even heard of Coda.

And yet it won the Oscars this year... I mean a fair number of people would see it just because of that.

I have never heard of any of those shows

The only show I have ever heard about on Apple tv is Mythic Quest

I see what you did there.

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