The moment a woman's body crashes into climbers on El Capitan's deadly face, Netflix's Untamed is being called 2025's most gripping crime drama.
This six-episode nightmare set in Yosemite's wilderness doesn't just want to tell a murder mystery it wants to bury its claws in your psyche and leave you questioning every beautiful landscape you'll ever see again.
Eric Bana's grizzled parks agent Kyle Turner arrives on horseback like some modern-day cowboy grim reaper, immediately dismissing the "suicide" theory with world-weary contempt.
His performance, all haunted silences and 2am phone calls to an ex-wife (Rosemarie DeWitt), transforms what could've been another procedural into Shakespearean tragedy.
You'll forget this is the same actor who played the Hulk; here, he's a broken man chasing ghosts in America's most breath-taking graveyard.
What makes Untamed exceptional isn't just Bana's career-best work or the Revenant scribe's brutal storytelling. It's how the park itself becomes the show's most compelling character... a stunning paradox of natural beauty and human savagery.
As Turner's partner Naya Vasquez (a scene-stealing Lily Santiago) quickly learns, Yosemite's 100,000 weekly visitors create a lawless void where "people do whatever bad stuff pops in their head" (as one ranger chillingly observes).
The genius is in the details:
- Forensic experts studying vultures that pick at human remains
- Suspects hidden among park employees and tourists alike
- A killer who understands the wilderness better than the law
When Turner growls, "This park's the size of Rhode Island with five highway entrances," you realize the terrifying truth: the perfect murder ground already exists in plain sight. And someone's using it.
Untamed is the critic’s favourite thriller so far because of its twists and ability to makes you feel you’re being watched.
All episodes streaming now on Netflix. Sleep with the lights on.
