If you were on Twitter over the past week, it was hard not to notice two hashtags that took the social media users by storm.
#7FavTVShows and #7FavFilms found Twitter users posting their personal favorite shows and movies, setting off endless debates about the films that everyone chose.
Thanks to the powers of calculators and the internet, we now know which movies and TV shows were the overall favorites across everyone who participated in the hashtags.
Taking the top spots in each list are dark dramas: Game of Thrones leads the TV side while Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight leads the film side.
Twitter’s Favorite TV Shows
Via Mashable and Fizziology, who rounded up the totals on the hashtag on Tuesday:
- Game of Thrones: 12,247
- Breaking Bad: 10,299
- Friends: 8,414
- The Walking Dead: 8,081
- The Office: 6,453
- Lost: 5,354
- Pretty Little Liars: 4,881
- OITNB: 4,349
- The Wire: 4,229
- Teen Wolf: 4,147
- Sherlock: 4,113
- Seinfeld: 4,081
- Supernatural: 3,885
- Stranger Things: 3,778
- Doctor Who: 3,663
- AHS: 3,628
- HIMYM: 3,425
- The Sopranos: 3,370
- Gossip Girl: 3,176
- The Simpsons: 3,156
Twitter’s Favorite Movies
As calculated by @TheFilmGoer
- The Dark Knight: 5,056
- Pulp Fiction: 4,966
- Shawshank Redemption: 4,910
- Empire Strikes Back: 4,772
- The Godfather (all films): 4,604
- Goodfellas: 3,877
- Alien (all films): 3,730
- Fight Club: 3,574
- Harry Potter (all films): 2,757
- Jaws: 2,622
- Forrest Gump: 2,530
- Jurassic Park: 2,356
- Blade Runner: 1,862
- The Big Lebowski: 1,860
- Rocky (all films): 1,807
While anyone’s “favorite” films are completely subjective, it’s interesting to see the consensus coming out of both hashtags.
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