The magical realism of “The Magician’s Elephant” surprises in the Netflix Top 10

After several days of seeing the same titles at the top, finally comes a new story to compete with the most popular movies and series on Netflix. This is ‘The Magician’s Elephant’, an animated film with all the style of magical realism, which will captivate even the biggest members of the house and make the little ones fall in love with it.

The last few days had been without much news in the Top 10 most popular movies and series on Netflix, with ‘La Gloria’ and ‘Luther: Night Falls’ at the top, and it seemed like no one was getting them off anytime soon. But now a contender has arrived who has reason enough to claim the throne of most popular on the streaming platform.

The 10 most popular movies on Netflix

Although he was not left with the top position of the The 10 most popular Netflix series, “The Magician’s Elephant” debuts the list in second place on the platform. It is a children’s story imbued with magical realism and based on the book of the same name by Kate DiCamillo. This adaptation features voices like those of Brian Tyree Henry, Benedict Wong or Kirby Howell-Baptiste from “The Sandman”.

1. Luther: Night falls
2. The wizard’s elephant
3. It was time
4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
5. the king of shadows
6. No news at the front
7. Very far
8. Sing: come and sing
9. The secret life of your pets

The story of “The Magician’s Elephant” on Netflix follows a boy who goes out into the world in search of his missing sister and, on his way, accepts the fate of a king who imposes three impossible missions on him in exchange for a magical elephant. it will help you achieve your goal. This title is about to complete its first week in the service’s Top 10.

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The 10 most popular series on Netflix

On the side of The 10 most popular Netflix seriesThings haven’t changed much, as “La Gloria” still tops the list. It is the story of a woman who has been bullied for many years by her peers, and is now plotting revenge against each of them. While in second place is ‘La Reina del Sur’ with Kate del Castillo.

The second season of ‘Shadow and Bone’ also dropped this week, from which it seemed that its new episodes would take longer to arrive. As well as those of ‘You’, which remains in fourth place in the standings, and which is already in its fourth season. And if you like Spanish thrillers, don’t miss your chance and watch ‘Hasta el cielo’.

1. The glory
2. The Queen of the South
3. Shadow and bone
4. You
5. up to the sky
6. merlin
7. The love interest
8. Until money do us part
9. Triad
10. entrevias

Surprisingly, ‘Merlina’ climbed to sixth position, after falling for a few days, to the point of dropping out of the Top 10. One that also lost strength is ‘Love Interest’, the Korean drama starring Yoo Yeon-seok. And finally, three titles that have also been the most discussed, “Until money do us part”, “Tríada” and “Entrevías”.