YellowstoneandTulsa KingcreatorTaylor Sheridanremains a huge draw for Paramount+, with other streamers now looking to replicate the same success, leaning into the vast, sprawling grit and complex characters that have made Sheridan a bona fide franchise-creating mastermind. Now,Netflixhas finally found what they’ve been looking for, with their new crime thriller series dropping audiences into the neo-Western-esque wilderness and following a captivating cop tasked with solving an impossible murder.
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Not only does the new Netflix series offer something for those hoping to find their next Taylor Sheridan fix, it also hails from the creator behind one of the streamer’s otherrecent Western hits,American Primeval. Created by Mark L. Smith best known for bothAmerican PrimevalandThe Revenant, andThe Marsh King’s Daughter’sElle Smith, the series is titledUntamed, and starsEric Bana(Black Hawk Down, Troy) as Kyle Turner, a special agent for the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. Suddenly, the investigation of a brutal death sends him down a path that will force him to face the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.
The rest of the all-star cast includes 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).Untamedhas quickly taken the #1 spot on Netflix’s global and U.S. Top 10, with the series joined on the list by the true-crime documentaryAmy Bradley Is Missing, the romantic dramaSullivan’s Crossing, the streamer’s huge hit seriesSquid Game, and another show that is sure tosatisfy Sheridan fans,The Waterfront.
Does ‘Untamed’ Do Enough to Satisfy Taylor Sheridan Fans?
Untamedhas not only been likened to the works of Taylor Sheridan, but also the acclaimed crime thriller hitsOzarkandTrue Detective. Thankfully, the new Netflix series has just aboutmanaged to achieve a response worthyof such shows, with the series now standing at a solid and “certified fresh” 79% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, alongside 72% from audiences on the Popcornmeter.
Untamedhas beenmarketed and made as a limited series, but with such success, there is sure to come sequels. But would Eric Bana be interested in returning? Speaking with TV Insider recently, theHulkstar said he hadn’t “given too much thought” to the idea before adding “it’s always possible.”
“I haven’t given too much thought on this, to be honest. It was so encompassing, but obviously we knew that the nature of his job is that these ISB agents do get moved around from park to park, which is why the ending is the way that it is because that is a very feasible thing and it was part of the story structure. So yeah, I guess it’s always possible, but it wasn’t something that we structurally played with whilst putting these episodes together.”
While Bana sounds vaguely open to the idea, creator Elle Smith is far more optimistic about a possibleUntamedSeason 2
“Oh, we would do this forever if they let us, but we’ll see. We’ll see how many adventures Turner has left in him… They go to different national parks and they do travel from park to park and case to case and things like that. So I think that’s what was interesting to us, and if we got the opportunity to do it again, it would be getting to explore a different park, a different case."
Source:TV Insider
