Yellowstone and Tulsa King creator Taylor Sheridan stays an enormous draw for Paramount+, with different streamers now seeking to replicate the identical success, leaning into the huge, sprawling grit and complicated characters which have made Sheridan a bona fide franchise-creating mastermind. Now, 
Netflix has lastly discovered what they’ve been on the lookout for, with their new crime thriller collection dropping audiences into the neo-Western-esque wilderness and following a fascinating cop tasked with fixing an not possible homicide.
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Not solely does the brand new Netflix collection provide one thing for these hoping to seek out their subsequent Taylor Sheridan repair, it additionally hails from the creator behind one of many streamer’s different current Western hits, American Primeval. Created by Mark L. Smith finest identified for each American Primeval and The Revenant, and The Marsh King’s Daughter’s Elle Smith, the collection is titled Untamed, and stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down, Troy) as Kyle Turner, a particular agent for the Nationwide Park Service Investigative Companies Department (ISB) who works to implement human regulation in nature’s huge wilderness. All of a sudden, the investigation of a brutal demise sends him down a path that can pressure him to face the darkish secrets and techniques inside the park, and in his personal previous.
The remainder of the all-star forged consists of Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Rosemarie DeWitt (La La Land, The Staircase), Wilson Bethel (Daredevil, All Rise), and Lily Santiago (La Brea, Mary Jane on Broadway). Untamed has shortly taken the #1 spot on Netflix’s international and U.S. Prime 10, with the collection joined on the listing by the true-crime documentary Amy Bradley Is Lacking, the romantic drama Sullivan’s Crossing, the streamer’s big hit collection Squid Recreation, and one other present that’s positive to fulfill Sheridan followers, The Waterfront.
Does ‘Untamed’ Do Sufficient to Fulfill Taylor Sheridan Followers?
Untamed has not solely been likened to the works of Taylor Sheridan, but in addition the acclaimed crime thriller hits Ozark and True Detective. Fortunately, the brand new Netflix collection has nearly managed to attain a response worthy of such reveals, with the collection now standing at a strong and “licensed contemporary” 79% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, alongside 72% from audiences on the Popcornmeter.
Untamed has been marketed and made as a restricted collection, however with such success, there’s positive to return sequels. However would Eric Bana be keen on returning? Talking with TV Insider lately, the Hulk star mentioned he hadn’t “given an excessive amount of thought” to the thought earlier than including “it’s all the time doable.”
“I haven’t given an excessive amount of thought on this, to be sincere. It was so encompassing, however clearly we knew that the character of his job is that these ISB brokers do get moved round from park to park, which is why the ending is the best way that it’s as a result of that may be a very possible factor and it was a part of the story construction. So yeah, I suppose it’s all the time doable, nevertheless it wasn’t one thing that we structurally performed with while placing these episodes collectively.”
Whereas Bana sounds vaguely open to the thought, creator Elle Smith is much extra optimistic a couple of doable Untamed Season 2
“Oh, we might do that endlessly in the event that they allow us to, however we’ll see. We’ll see what number of adventures Turner has left in him… They go to completely different nationwide parks they usually do journey from park to park and case to case and issues like that. So I believe that’s what was fascinating to us, and if we bought the chance to do it once more, it might be attending to discover a special park, a special case.”
Supply: TV Insider
Untamed
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July 17, 2025
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Netflix