Eric Bana’s National Park-Set Mystery Thriller UNTAMED Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
Netflix has announced that Untamed is officially coming back for another round of gripping wilderness suspense. The streaming giant has renewed the hit mystery-thriller series, starring Eric Bana, for a second season.
Created by Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith, Untamed follows special agent Kyle Turner, played by Bana, who works for the National Parks Service enforcing law in some of nature’s most untamed places. The first season saw him pulled into the investigation of a brutal death that forced him to confront dark secrets buried not only in the park, but also deep within himself.
I really liked the first season of this show and blazed through it in a couple of days. The story hooked me and it will be interesting to see what the next season will entail.
Season 1 also starred Sam Neill and Rosemarie DeWitt, helping anchor the emotionally charged and visually stunning narrative.
At the end of the debut season, Turner finally left Yosemite National Park behind, symbolically shedding the emotional weight he’d carried through the years. Season 2 will pick up with Turner venturing into new territory and unraveling a fresh mystery.
“I am absolutely thrilled that we get the chance to bring another season of Untamed to life,” Bana shared in a statement. “The response to Season 1 has been a testament to the incredible effort by our crew to deliver something truly unique. I can’t wait to take Kyle on his next journey.”
Interestingly, Untamed wasn’t always meant to continue. “Elle and I envisioned it as a stand-alone, six episodes,” Smith told Tudum. “But then the more that we got into it, it was just such a great cast … it was just like, ‘Oh yeah, how do we keep this going?’”
The show premiered July 17 and quickly became a breakout hit, climbing to the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s English-language TV chart. That success helped fuel the decision to expand beyond its original limited series format.
Smith and Smith will continue serving as co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Bana, John Wells, Erin Jontow, Todd Black, Tony Shaw, Steve Lee Jones, and Cliff Roberts. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
With Bana returning and a new mystery ahead, Untamed Season 2 is shaping up to be another wild ride through nature's dark corners.