Netflix fans hope '10/10' show avoids controversial 'Mindhunter treatment' as they praise new murder mystery series
A 'delicious' murder mystery has landed on Netflix but just days after its release, fans are already worried it may end up getting the so-called 'Mindhunter treatment'.
The series was created by Paul William Davies for Netflix and was inspired by The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower.
Produced by Shondaland - a production company started by producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes - the series, titled The Residence, stars none other than Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito and Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba alongside others including Molly Griggs, Ken Marino and Randall Park.
The setting? The backstairs of the White House with '132 rooms' and 'one disastrous State Dinner'. Those involved? '157 suspects. 1 dead body. 1 wildly eccentric detective.' What's not to love?
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But it seems that while Netflix's latest crime drama has viewers hooked, they're now fearing it could end up suffering the same fate as one of the streaming service's other shows - Mindhunter.
Netflix's Mindhunter went down a treat with viewers and remained a top favorite series on the platform for many crime lovers when it released in 2017, but that didn't stop the series ultimately being axed.
Despite its near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and even getting a shout-out from Stephen King, Mindhunter failed to be greenlit for a third series.
Running for two seasons between 2017 and 2019, the series created by Joe Penhall and executive produced by Penhall, Charlize Theron, and David Fincher, has a banging average Rotten Tomatoes tomatometer of 97 percent and popcornmeter of 95.
Alas, after just two glorious seasons, it would be no more, Fincher - who also directed many of the episodes - explaining the second season ultimately turned out to be too 'expensive' to prompt a third being picked up.
Fincher told Empire in 2020: "Listen, for the viewership that it had, it was an expensive show.
"We talked about 'Finish [Fincher's Netlix film] Mank and then see how you feel,' but I honestly don't think we're going to be able to do it for less than I did season two. And on some level, you have to be realistic about dollars have to equal eyeballs."
After watching The Residence, one Twitter user wrote: "The Residence looks so good. I think Netflix is going to cancel it."
Granted, that sentence doesn't seem to make any sense, but if you look at some of the streaming service's other much-loved crime dramas, you'll see what the user is trying to get at.
Well, it may be too late for Mindhunter - or is it Netflix? - but hopefully The Residence won't follow suit.
The Residence premiered on March 20 and reviews are already flooding in.
One Twitter user wrote: "Amazing performance, delicious who done it!"
"I was seated," another added.
And a third resolved: "Hear me out: I need “The Residence” on @netflix to become a long running anthology series where Cordelia gets hired to solve investigations of murders in different countries’ Presidential Residencies."
So, how about it Netflix?
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Poppy Bilderbeck