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Erik Gruenwedel
December 30, 2020
Netflix’s ongoing chess-focused chart-topper “The Queen’s Gambit” and South Korea’s Oscar-winning drama Parasite ranked among the most-streamed episodic program and feature-length movie in 2020, according to new data from JustWatch. The analytics company is an international streaming guide that helps more than 20 million users per month across 46 countries find content on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and Peacock, among other streaming platforms.
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A not unexpected movie in the Top 10 was Contagion, director Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 take on a global pandemic that ranked No. 4. The older movie became popular because of the coronavirus and was one of the most popular movies on JustWatch during March and April across several countries.
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