Untamed has become a bit of a sleeper hit on Netflix!
The new Eric Bana-starring series just debuted on the streamer on Thursday (July 17), and immediately shot to the top of the charts.
Netflix’s Top 10 weekly chart, dated July 14-20, reveals Untamed drew in 24.6 million viewers to lead the English TV List, the second No 1 debut this year for co-creator Mark L Smith.
Here’s a synopsis: A character-driven mystery-thriller that follows Kyle Turner (Bana), a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Inman on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.
With the series becoming so popular so quick, many may be wondering what was up with that ending, and we have an explanation right here.
Warning: spoilers ahead!
Keep reading to find out more…
At the end of the series, Turner leaves Yosemite for good, leaving behind the horse he taught Vasquez (Lily Santiago) to ride on for her and a box of his late son Caleb’s toys for her son.
“His time spent with Vasquez and her son, Gael — that’s kind of the first child he’s really spent any time with since Caleb’s death,” co-creator Elle Smith tells Tudum. “It brings out a softness in him, and a sense of hope that maybe he hadn’t remembered or recognized in a while.”
Co-creator Mark L Smith shared how the ending sets up Turner’s future in his next endeavor.
“Instead of Turner being in his element, he’ll be in a land where he doesn’t understand all the dangers and the risks, and he doesn’t understand the people around [him],” he said. “He’ll be a little bit on his back foot and a little bit unsure, and he’ll have to learn as well.”