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\n\t\tAll 6 episodes of Untamed drop on Netflix today (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs\/Netflix)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tAll 6 episodes of Untamed drop on Netflix today (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs\/Netflix)<\/p>\n
Netflix<\/a>\u2019s new drama Untamed <\/a>wastes no time with boring throat-clearing up top. Time is of the essence: we only have six episodes to piece together who killed the young woman we see tumble off a cliff in the very first scene.<\/p>\n Set in the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park<\/a> (at least in the B-roll, the show was filmed in British Columbia), we zoom in to the hulking granite monolith El Capitan<\/a>. A couple of climbing aficionados are trying to scale the thing.<\/p>\n The sheer rockface has claimed over 30 lives, including seasoned climbers, and is about to add another victim to the tally when an unidentified woman falls down into the climbers\u2019 tangle of ropes, belays and carabiners.\u00a0It\u2019s a stomach-snatching opener.<\/p>\n The park rangers who respond on the scene are quickly usurped by the grizzled gunslinger Kyle Turner (Eric Bana), a parks special agent who strolls in on a horse (\u2018Here comes Gary Cooper<\/a>\u2019) to tell them they\u2019re all doing their jobs wrong.<\/p>\n Among the lowly ranger class is Naya Vasquez (Lily Santiago, providing welcome light relief), a newcomer from the Los Angeles force who\u2019s taking endless slack for it. Despite an aversion to horse-riding and a naivety about the park, she finagles her way onto the Jane Doe case with Turner.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tGet personalised updates on all things Netflix\t\t\t<\/p>\n Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro\u2019s TV Newsletter.<\/p>\n Sign up to our newsletter<\/a> and then select your show in the link we\u2019ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.<\/p>\n Turner\u2019s boss Paul Souter (Sam Neill<\/a>) and everyone else in the department is keen to write the death off as a suicide. But Turner suspects there\u2019s more to it. None-spoilery-spoiler: he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n \t\t To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web Created by Elle Smith and Mark L Smith (The Revenant<\/a> scribe, so no stranger to conjuring an unforgiving setting), Untamed at first glance looks like another bog-standard police procedural.\u00a0<\/p>\n But what puts it head and shoulders above any of the crime thrillers Netflix has offered up so far this year \u2013 and more in the leagues of Broadchurch<\/a> or Mare of Easttown<\/a> \u2013 is the inventive setting, with a cast singing in perfect harmony.<\/p>\n World-weariness and \u2013 we later discover, although clues are there from the start \u2013 family tragedy show in Turner\u2019s every interaction. He barely smiles. He often doesn\u2019t reply to people. He lives in a cabin teeming with packing boxes, unclear whether he\u2019s coming or going (it certainly does not have that box-fresh look a lot of Netflix homes do).<\/p>\n He has a habit of calling his ex-wife Jill (Rosemarie DeWitt) at 2.30am to muse over the tatters of their once-happy lives. He\u2019s the quintessential difficult detective and it\u2019s some of Bana\u2019s best work. You completely forget this is Prince Hector<\/a>, the Hulk or King Henry VIII. This is Kyle Turner and he\u2019s going through it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no easy task he\u2019s up against. Trying to enforce the rule of law on this wilderness is a fool\u2019s errand. Turner lays it out pretty succinctly himself: \u2018This park\u2019s the size of Rhode Island. It\u2019s got five separate highway entrances, bringing in over 100,000 people a week.\u2019<\/p>\n \t\t \t\t This is a place where CCTV is thin on the ground and the forensic experts called in are the type who specialise in vultures that pick over human remains (which happens to more than one person). Traversing this colossal haystack to find the slightest of clues can only be done on horseback or by chopper.<\/p>\n At a distance, the park looks desolate. But amongst the trees, waterfalls and deer-filled meadows are pockets of civilisation that Turner and Vasquez brush up against, as they try to figure out who the dead woman was and, later, who killed her.<\/p>\n Everything and everyone is real. And most of them are suspects. Because for all its beauty, the park invites a frightening lawlessness. \u2018Something about putting people in the wilderness \u2013 they figure nobody\u2019s watching, so they do whatever bad stuff pops in their head,\u2019 says ranger Bruce Milch (William Smillie, with more light relief), explaining the deaths and disappearances that happen with alarming regularity.<\/p>\n 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. And you\u2019ll come away wishing there might have been more throat-clearing up top after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n Untamed is available to stream on Netflix.<\/p>\n Got a story?<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff<\/a> page \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/UNTAMED_u_S1_E2_00_20_43_08RC-efe4-e1750096118873.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe Yosemite setting makes the show (Picture: Netflix)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tSam Neill plays Kyle Turner\u2019s boss (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs\/Netflix)<\/p>\n![\"Untamed.](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259177697-5693.jpg\")
\n\t\tThe park is filled with pockets of civilisation (Picture: Ricardo Hubbs\/Netflix)<\/p>\n
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