Most-watched Netflix shows by state revealed

“The Watcher” is set in New Jersey — and as it turns out, residents there are intently watching “The Watcher.”

The product review site PerfectRec has revealed which Netflix series every state is obsessed with, based on May data from Google Trends and IMDb rating information.

California’s pick was “Cobra Kai,” while Hawaii tuned into “Emily In Paris,” despite critics calling the meme-able series “boring.”

Fittingly, people in North Carolina frequently watched “Outer Banks,” while those in Iowa streamed “Love is Blind.”

“Stranger Things” was tops in Utah. In fact, the Duffer Brothers thriller was the most-streamed series in 2022.

Netflix, citing Nielsen ratings, said the drama was the most-watched English TV show within its first four weeks of release, with its latest season scoring 1.35 billion hours of view time in the first 28 days.

The series, which premiered in 2016, is slated to end with Season 5.

Production plans are unclear amid the Hollywood writers’ strike.

Fans are disappointed that their favorite band of monster-fighting teens will be no more, but actor David Harbour, who plays Eleven’s doting father figure, Jim Hopper, said it’s time for a curtain call.

“I think it’s a great show, even if I wasn’t in it,” the 48-year-old actor said in February. “Now we’re almost nine years from filming the first season, and I think it is time for it to end. But it is, of course, very bittersweet. You know, there’s a sadness there.”

According to PerfectRec’s data, New Yorkers weren’t as keen on the supernatural show.

Instead, they favored “Black Mirror,” specifically Seasons 3 to 5.

New Mexico, on the other hand, opted for the spooky spectacular “Wednesday,” which ranked second behind “Stranger Things” as the biggest English-language series of all time on the streaming platform.

The hit drama was not without controversy, though. Jenna Ortega, who portrays the titular star Wednesday Addams, was bashed after sharing her experiences on set.

“There were times on that set where I even became almost unprofessional in a sense where I just started changing lines,” the young actress, 20, admitted on Dax Shepard’s podcast “Armchair Expert” earlier this year.

“The script supervisor thought I was going with something and then I had to sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what happened to the scene?’ And I’d have to go and explain why I couldn’t go do certain things.”

Meanwhile, streamers in Maine favored the new series “Beef,” which recently came under fire over one of the actor’s past comments.

David Choe, who plays criminal mastermind Isaac, once joked in 2014 that he was a “successful rapist.” The footage from the actor’s now-defunct podcast — on which he described a nonconsensual sexual encounter that he later claimed was fabricated — resurfaced following the premiere of “Beef” last month.

The remarks elicited backlash online as viewers threatened to boycott the dramedy, prompting a joint statement from show runner Lee Sung Jin and executive producers and stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.

“The story David Choe fabricated nine years ago is undeniably hurtful and extremely disturbing. We do not condone this story in any way, and we understand why this has been so upsetting and triggering,” the trio said in a statement in April.

“We’re aware David has apologized in the past for making up this horrific story, and we’ve seen him put in the work to get the mental health support he needed over the last decade to better himself and learn from his mistakes.”

For its part, Netflix most recently faced criticism for cracking down on password sharing.

After news broke of the upcoming policy change, Netflix saw subscriptions nosedive, and the media giant pushed back the start date of restrictions.