Untamed
Netflix | Release Date: July 17, 2025
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
14
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesMike HaleJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s conventional stuff, but Bana and Santiago play off each other reasonably well, and the mystery (which ends up, as so many mysteries do these days, as a cri de coeur about neglected children) is a little more rigorously worked out than the Netflix norm. Read full review
60
DeciderJoel KellerJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: The kind of show you might turn on as a distraction instead of a show that requires close watching. But it’s an entertaining distraction, with just enough story to keep things moving. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: It’s a show that begins with topical potential that goes unrealized and, instead, settles for spinning a solid yarn, albeit one propped up by entirely too many clichés. Read full review
60
The GuardianRebecca NicholsonJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: As serviceable as it is, it leaves the impression of having once had the bones of a more elegant thriller, softened to become a more standard, more palatable prospect. It’s twisty, but it doesn’t take much to guess what those twists are, and where they will lead. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBrian FarvourAug 8, 2025
Season 1 Review: There’s plenty of substance to keep curiosity afloat enough as the next episode begins to roll. Unfortunately, said substance can’t help but lose its own connective tissue as an intriguing murder mystery devolves before long into something not at all unlike what came before, ultimately transforming into just another show about people trying to get to the bottom of something unusual. Read full review
50
The Mercury NewsRandy MyersJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: The premise promises more than what ultimately gets delivered in this disjointed, semi-compelling six-part series. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubSaloni GajjarJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: Untamed is a digestible enough crime series with a couple of solid performances. But it’s not satisfying because it frustratingly stretches itself thin. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: As vexing as its distension, however, is its mildness—a quality that plagues its stock characters, its ho-hum mystery, and its climactic revelations, which are visible from a mountain peak away. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: Inessential yet world-building exchanges set “Untamed” apart from most streaming-service procedurals. So does the Smiths’ ability to maintain mysteries through several episodes and deliver genuine thrills and surprises. This quality wanes, however, as the rangers uncover criminal enterprises that pose greater threats to the national park than even DOGE did. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen TraversJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: It leans harder and harder on murder-mystery tropes that have all but exhausted their utility. By the end, “Untamed” can only offer more of the same, despite ample opportunity to provide something “different.” Read full review
40
Screen RantGreg MacArthurAug 29, 2025
Season 1 Review: As it stands, the Netflix series is tonally ineffective, visually uncompelling, and narratively drags viewers to the middle of nowhere. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: Its central plot is so formulaic, and the series so tentative in making any larger argument about how we alternately romanticize and abuse nature, that Untamed never bushwhacks its way into its own identity. The series’ first scene is a banger, and it’s all downhill from there. Read full review
40
TimeJudy BermanJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: There’s nothing inherently wrong with this premise; it’s just fleshed out in the most hackneyed way possible. Turner is the kind of antihero detective we’ve seen a million times before. .... Untamed has a far more fascinating and multifaceted lead in Yosemite. Read full review
40
ColliderSamuel R. MurrianJul 17, 2025
Season 1 Review: It's surprising and disappointing in equal measure to announce that the show is such a muted and limp affair that none of the characters or performances really ultimately amount to much. Read full review
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