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Ellie Kemp
A Netflix series rated '10/10' by fans has been watched for a whopping 74 million hours.
The streaming platform is always shaking up its offerings, whether that's adding exciting new TV shows or removing older content. But a new series featuring a Mindhunter actor seems to have made waves in recent weeks.
The show has racked up an incredible 74,300,000 hours viewed, as per figures from FlixPatrol. It stars Mindhunter's Holt McCallany - making it a must-see for fans of the much-loved but sadly-canceled crime series.
McCallany played Bill Tench, the seasoned FBI Special Agent at the heart of Mindhunter’s Behavioral Science Unit. Alongside psychologist Wendy Carr and rookie agent Holden Ford, Tench helps establish the FBI’s first dedicated criminal-profiling division at Quantico, traveling the country leading training seminars for local police on investigative techniques informed by serial-killer interviews.
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The drama centers on the Buckley family as they fight to save their faltering fishing business in coastal North Carolina - and will stop at nothing to restore the empire their ancestors built.
McCallany plays Harlan Buckley, the head of the Buckley clan. He built his family’s once-thriving fishing - and waterfront restaurant - empire from the ground up, but now faces mounting debts and outside threats.
On the show’s narrative, Williamson told Tudum that it 'focuses on a blue-collar man determined to secure a future for his loved ones'.
"Starting with virtually nothing, they carved out a small but proud fishing enterprise in their hometown. Now, piece by piece, it’s slipping through their fingers, and they’re prepared to go to any lengths to preserve what’s theirs—because it’s more than a livelihood, it’s their family’s identity.”
The series in question is called The Waterfront and, since its debut, the crime thriller has become a sensation on the Netflix Bangers Facebook page, where one fan rated it a perfect 10/10.
"It was good. There were a few episodes where it got out of control," another person penned, while a third gave their take: "Started this last night, binged 6 episodes really good."
Meanwhile, a fourth said: "Such a good watch if you like action and killings."
Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the drama was rated 63 percent by critics.
"Grim and pulpy, The Waterfront traffics in clichés but injects them with enough bravado to make for a gripping binge," their consensus read.
Meanwhile, one RT user summed it up as 'exactly the kind of gripping, character-driven drama Netflix needs more of!" adding: "I couldn’t stop watching."
The Waterfront is streaming now on Netflix.