How Untamed’s twisted finale helped drive 451.6M Netflix watched hours

Collider reports that Netflix’s mystery thriller Untamed — a six-episode Season 1 starring Eric Bana as National Park Service investigator Kyle Turner — logged 451.6 million watched hours in six months, a figure the outlet links to the series’ twisted finale and strong rewatch value.

The story is set in Yosemite National Park, where Turner is called to probe the death of a Jane Doe who fell from a cliff; many park rangers assume suicide, but Turner doubts that explanation. Lily Santiago plays rookie ranger Naya Vasquez, the only colleague willing to work with Turner, and Sam Neill appears as Chief Park Ranger Paul Scouter, a character whose hidden involvement is revealed by the end of the season.

Collider argues the finale’s revelations — particularly Scouter’s role in the case — are a key reason viewers returned to the series, increasing its streaming hours. The show’s compact six-episode run and twist-heavy plotting are highlighted as fueling immediate and repeat viewings.

The piece places Untamed in a lineage of grim, character-driven mysteries, comparing its jaded-investigator archetype to projects like True Detective and referencing Dennis Lehane-style influences and Gone Baby Gone. The series’ themes of grief and obsession revolve around Turner’s trauma over his son Caleb’s death and subplot strands involving his ex-wife Jill (Rosemarie DeWitt), which the finale ties together.

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