On: What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report

[alexpotato]

Good time to mention that 120 MILLION people watched the series finale of MASH.

To this day it's still in the top 10 of most viewed television events with the other being primarily sports events (e.g. Super Bowl etc)

[eszed → alexpotato]

And it's still one of the best pieces of television ever made. My own personal canon would be that, _Ozymandias_ (Breaking Bad), _The Pine Barrens_ (The Sopranos), and honorable mention to the finale of _Blackadder_. What's anyone else's nominations?

[tcmb → eszed]

Gotta mention Succession as a very recent example of great TV and great season finales.

[stickfigure → alexpotato]

...and that was after 11 seasons!

[rasz → alexpotato]

as estimated by a sampling of 1700-5500 homes.

    1980 1,700 audiometer homes and a rotating board of nearly 850 diary respondents
    1985 Nielsen meters TV viewing in more than 5,500 U.S. homes

[iainmerrick → rasz]

Are you saying that viewing number is dubious because the panel is small?

~2000 is a pretty decent sample size. The viewing numbers you should be skeptical about are the very small ones which will have huge error bars, not the huge ones.