Regardless of having loads of American content material gushing by means of the platform’s veins, 
Netflix has been overtaken by Spain’s newest revenge thriller. After debuting on August 29, the miniseries Two Graves (Dos tumbas) is a brief watch, with simply three episodes, however it has been sufficient to chart at #1 on the worldwide streaming chart and #3 on the U.S. chart on the time of writing. Nevertheless, whether or not that makes it a superb watch is a totally totally different query.
Created by Agustín Martínez, the collection follows Isabel (Kiti Mánver), a grandmother who launches a determined and more and more violent search after two teenage ladies vanish from a quiet coastal city. Cash Heist stars Álvaro Morte and Hovik Keuchkerian co-star.
Like many sudden hit exhibits on Netflix, ones that arrive with none fanfare and catch everybody off guard, the three-episode collection has not obtained many opinions, however of the 4 critics’ opinions shared on Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of them are constructive. Nevertheless, the constructive opinions do warn that viewers ought to “not look too deep” into the collection and simply take pleasure in watching “an sudden lead” going into full killer mode slightly than specializing in “the plot holes, implausible moments and twists.”
The only viewers evaluation that has been submitted for the miniseries is sort of as brutal because the revenge extracted within the collection, saying, “The whole collection was a joke. Unhealthy performing, unhealthy all the things.” Naturally, that equals a giant hit for Netflix, as you’ll count on. Nevertheless, the recognition of Two Graves may be attributed to it being the high-profile TV return of Carmen Mola – the pen title shared by Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz, and Antonio Mercero – for the primary time because the trio behind the pseudonym had been revealed in 2021.
Netflix Is Being Taken Over By Good and Unhealthy International Content material
Netflix has performed host to many hit exhibits from outdoors the U.S., in addition to dozens of foreign-language films which have all discovered their method to the highest of the worldwide charts and scored extremely within the U.S. as effectively. Together with Two Graves, different such choices at the moment on the high finish of the charts embody the South Korean time-travel collection, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty, erotic German film Fall for Me, and South Korean coming-of-age movie, Love Untangled.
Though huge flagship collection comparable to Wednesday or the upcoming return of Stranger Issues are nonetheless big performers for Netflix, their latest ramping up of international content material has not gone unnoticed, and in lots of circumstances has resulted in some shocking wins for the streamer, whereas some content material created in America continues to fail to seize viewers consideration and have the plug pulled after a single season.
Two Graves has as soon as once more proved {that a} present doesn’t have to be full of huge Hollywood names, and it doesn’t should please everybody as a way to seize a high spot on the Netflix chart. What it wants is an attention-grabbing hook, and, within the case of Two Graves, be quick sufficient that viewers don’t have to take a position various hours to binge the whole factor in a single go.
Two Graves
- Launch Date
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August 29, 2025
- Community
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Netflix
- Administrators
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Kike Maíllo
- Writers
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Jorge Díaz Cortés, Santos Mercero