After almost two weeks planted on top of Netflix’s top 10 list, the Eric Bana mystery series Untamed has finally fallen to a new show. Well, technically two shows, but I’m only going to count one of them.
Yes, as of Tuesday morning, WWE Monday Night RAW is the #1 show on the service, but Untamed is now actually down to #3, also having been passed up by The Hunting Wives. That had been hanging around #2 for a while, but now that Untamed has been out this long and interest in The Hunting Wives hasn’t waned, that’s enough to get it to the top. The Hunting Wives was first released just over a week ago on July 21.
There has been no real movement about making Untamed more than a self-contained miniseries, even if those involved with the show say they’re open to it. With that level of performance, it’s certainly not impossible, though the last time we were talking about this with the same showrunner, it was about his American Primeval miniseries. That performed great, but there has been no announced sequel or prequel.
The Hunting Wives? It’s not listed as a Limited Series, but it sort of should be, given that it’s based on a book by May Cobb that does not have a sequel. The end of the show, however, seems to indicate that a second season is likely the goal, and once again, we have a showrunner teasing the possibility, and star Brittany Snow saying things like:
“I think the end is really interesting and I know that we would deal with it in Season 2. There are a lot of questions that didn’t get answered because Rebecca wants to answer them in the next season if we get one.”
Given its performance, The Hunting Wives does seem like a show that will end up getting a second season renewal, even if it does take weeks or months, as can happen with Netflix frequently. Unless a show rockets to huge numbers, it usually takes a long while to see a greenlight, even if it does feel fairly obvious that it’s coming.
The rest of the list has a number of licensed series that are doing well, including The Lazarus Project (with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, no less), High Town and Sullivan’s Crossing. I also noted yesterday that the 2020 documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, has resurfaced due to all the recent Epstein news during the Trump administration.
I will be curious to see how long The Hunting Wives stays on top, but Wednesday season 2 looms…
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