Netflix’s Best New Mystery Show Has A Perfect 100% On Rotten Tomatoes

Well, I seem to have a good one for you today. Netflix’s new #2 show is actually Danish, something we don’t see every day, and a good old fashioned mystery that as of now, has a perfect 100% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

The show is Secrets We Keep, not based on a book, though there is one called that which is unrelated to this project. Rather, the story is about a rich Danish woman, her neighbors and a missing woman in their employ. Here’s the synopsis of the series:

“When her neighbor’s au pair goes missing, Cecilie is compelled to personally investigate but as she uncovers the truth, her perfect world falls apart.”

I have started this show and so far, I find it both intriguing and deeply unsettling. There are beautiful houses and model-like women and yet the vibes here are just all wrong, in a good way. I feel like the show is herding us in a specific direction when it comes to the culprit, but my guess is that like many of these shows, that will prove to be a red herring.

There series at the moment has a good, but not incredibly 78% score from the viewers that have rated it. Still, that indicates a good amount of interest, and I’m certainly hooked after the first episode.

Netflix is home to a large amount of fantastic foreign mysteries, so it’s not the biggest surprise this is doing well. However, this is doing very well for a foreign language show, at #2 only behind an Osama Bin Laden documentary, but ahead of big Netflix series like Forever, The Four Seasons and a new season of All American, which always does well on the service.

So, this is doing well. Does that mean a season 2? Probably not. Even though this is not based on a book with a conclusive ending, this is presented as a limited series that is not meant to go past this. What could happen is that the same creator could be greenlit for another Netflix project in the future. That would be Ingeborg Topsøe, where this is easily her most high-profile show, and she also wrote all six episodes of the series (with co-writers on two).

So far I’m impressed. An original mystery without novel source material. A foreign language series performing this well even in the US. Really solid work.

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