Overview
If you like watching Eric Bana (A Sacrifice) trying to solve mysteries, cinemas have been delivering in recent years. First, the Australian actor stepped into Aaron Falk's shoes in the movie adaptation of author Jane Harper's The Dry in 2020. Come 2024, that Aussie hit scored a sequel, with Bana returning as the lead in Force of Nature: The Dry 2.
On the small screen, now comes Untamed, which has nothing to do with Harper's Falk novels — but still puts Bana in murder-mystery mode. As the just-dropped trailer for the Netflix limited series illustrates, the show tasks the Chopper, Dirty John, Blueback and Memoir of a Snail star with playing an Investigative Services Branch agent of the US National Parks Service who is looking into a death in Yosemite National Park.
If you also enjoy watching whodunnits and detective tales where the person doing the sleuthing is forced to confront their own past in the course of their investigation, that's Untamed across six episodes as well, as viewers will see when it arrives on Netflix on Thursday, July 17, 2025. Bana's Kyle Turner is "looking into this girl who went up El Capitan", he advises at the start of the sneak peek. Before the trailer is out, Sam Neill (The Twelve) as his colleague and chief park ranger Paul Souter is advising "you have to stop beating yourself to death with memories".
Skeletons, scratch marks, evil, explosions: they're all a part of the footage for the show so far, as is facing the task of working on a case that spreads across close to a million acres of wilderness.
Rosemarie DeWitt (Smile 2), Lily Santiago (La Brea) and Wilson Bethel (Daredevil: Born Again) also feature among the cast, portraying Kyle's remarried ex-wife Jill, Los Angeles police officer Naya Vasquez and former army ranger-turned-park wildlife management officer Shane Maguire, respectively.
Bana not only stars but executive produces, with Untamed created by Mark L Smith (Twisters) — in his second new Netflix series of 2025 after American Primeval — and boasting The Pitt's John Wells as another of its executive producers.
Check out the trailer for Untamed below:
Untamed streams via Netflix from Thursday, July 17, 2025.
Images: Ricardo Hubbs / Netflix © 2025.