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Netflix has another chart-topping original, and it arrives with a familiar true-crime fingerprint. Unabomber, the roughly 100-minute thriller from director Janus Metz, debuted on the streamer on Friday, September 25, 2026 — and within days climbed to the service’s most-watched film slot worldwide. Reporting around September 29–30 also put the title at No. 1 in …
Netflix’s Friday drop is not disposable true-crime filler. Unabomber, directed by Janus Metz, is live as of September 25, 2026 — an R-rated thriller of roughly 100 minutes that crosscuts a teenage mathematical prodigy at Harvard against the FBI dragnet that decades later closes on Ted Kaczynski. Jacob Tremblay plays young Kaczynski; Russell Crowe anchors …
Netflix’s true-crime machine is humming again. Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, the fourth chapter in Ryan Murphy’s anthology franchise, premiered on September 17 and has spent much of the week at No. 1 on the U.S. TV chart. FlixPatrol data says it held the crown through the weekend even as critics lined up with mid-40s …
American Hostage brings a strange and frightening chapter of 1977 Indianapolis to television tonight, with Jon Hamm at the center of a story shaped by negotiation rather than spectacle. The MGM+ drama follows a hostage crisis that places pressure on police, journalists and the people trapped inside the standoff, while the clock turns every conversation …