'Best crime thriller of 2025' gets season 2 on Netflix after 26,100,000 views

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Kyle Turner will be back! (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs/Netflix)
A new smash Netflix series has been renewed for a second season after dominating the global streaming charts.
Untamed saw Eric Bana lead an all-star cast alongside Sam Neill, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lily Santiago, Wilson Bethel and William Smillie.
The six-part drama follows Kyle Turner (Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service, as he takes on an investigation into a brutal death.
However, the incident sends him 'on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past'.
Many made their way through the episodes at warp speed, and, unsurprisingly, the show went on to top the global charts on Netflix with 26.1million views, and 127.1m hours watched.
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Netflix has now confirmed the thrilling procedural will be back for a second season, sharing the news on their official X account.
Eric Bana led the way in new drama Untamed on Netflix (Picture: Netflix)
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The show currently claims a Rotten Tomatoes score of 71% from the audience, compared to a 80% ranking from impressed critics. Metro branded it the best crime thriller of 2025 so far in a glowing five star review.
Although there is currently no news on how the Untamed story will continue, after the first season wrapped up fairly neatly, we've had some insight to tell us the setting likely won't be Yosemite.
Shedding light on what more episodes could possibly involve, co-showrunner Elle Smith told TV Insider: 'If we got the opportunity to do it again, it would be getting to explore a different park, a different case.
'We would do this forever if they let us, but we'll see. We'll see how many adventures Turner has left in him.'
Metro's thoughts on Untamed
Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cook shares her take…
Created by Elle Smith and Mark L Smith (The Revenant scribe, so no stranger to conjuring an unforgiving setting), Untamed at first glance looks like another bog-standard police procedural.
But what puts it head and shoulders above any of the crime thrillers Netflix has offered up so far this year – and more in the leagues of Broadchurch or Mare of Easttown – is the inventive setting, with a cast singing in perfect harmony.
It's no easy task Kyle Turner is up against. Trying to enforce the rule of law on this wilderness is a fool's errand. CCTV is thin on the ground and the forensic experts called in are the type who specialise in vultures that pick over human remains.
As the twists and turns take shape, bringing into question unsolved cases from years gone by, Untamed becomes a show you will struggle to look away from. You will gasp. You will sweat. Good thing there's already more on the way.
He was joined in the cast by a string of huge names, including Lily Santiago (Picture: Netflix)
The series has topped Netflix charts around the world (Picture: Netflix)
Heaping praise on Untamed, Linda R commented: 'Fast paced with startling turns of event. Well cast with believable portrayals of individual characters while still maintaining a 'Hollywood pretty' aesthetic. Yosemite is stunning.
'I hope there's another season; get your friends and family to watch. It will be time well spent!'
'This was a wild ride, and I was immediately drawn into it from episode one to an unexpected streaming binge that I am so glad I decided to dive in and go with flow on,' Sai M said.
'This is a fantastic series with great actors and a compelling storyline paired with breathtaking scenery, and shockingly unexpected twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat the whole time!'
'Pretty good miniseries. Binged in one sitting,' John M commended.
As Chief M added: 'This isn't super original, but it's a really decent mystery. The story is pretty tight and logical. Good solid acting and the scenery is gorgeous. The first scene of the show had my pulse racing.'
A version of this article was originally published on July 24.
Untamed is available to stream on Netflix now.
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