The most streamed TV show in 2023 wasn't a cult hit or a darling among critics. It was the glamorous courtroom series "Suits," which became very popular on Netflix.
The most streamed TV program of 2023 was neither a critical favorite nor a cult favorite. It was the glitzy courtroom show ‘Suits’, which shot to fame on Netflix. With the final episode airing in the fall of 2019, the USA Network drama officially ended the era of lighthearted "blue-sky" dramas, which included ‘Monk’ and ‘Psych’. However, it turned into an unexpected hit in 2023, topping Nielsen's streaming charts for a record 12 weeks in a row and totaling 57.7 billion minutes at the end of the year, surpassing the record established by ‘The Office’ in 2020, the year Nielsen began issuing Top 10 charts.
Over the last few years, there have been spikes in the number of people watching episodes like ‘Friends’, ‘Girls’, ‘The Office’, and ‘Back to School’. This is because people are returning to their old favorites and reclaiming the classics for themselves. However, no phenomenon has raised a midlist program to the top of the ratings quite like the one surrounding ‘Suits’. The blue-sky shows were fluff even at their height; ‘Saturday Night Live’ created a whole game-show routine based on the participants' incapacity to recall anything about the USA smash Burn Notice other than the fact that it was broadcast.
