Untamed (TV series)

Untamed is an American crime drama television series for Netflix set in Yosemite National Park starring Eric Bana, Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt and Sam Neill. It was released on July 17, 2025, on Netflix. Originally pitched as a limited miniseries, it was renewed for a second season in July 2025.

Premise

In the vast expanse of Yosemite National Park, a woman's death draws a federal agent into lawless terrain, where nature obeys no rules but its own.

Cast

Main

Eric Bana as Kyle Turner, a National Park Service Investigative Services Branch special agent at Yosemite National Park who is still grieving the loss of his young son six years prior
Sam Neill as Paul Souter, the chief park ranger of Yosemite and Turner's mentor
Rosemarie DeWitt as Jill Bodwin, Turner's ex-wife, a realtor who used to be an elementary school teacher
Lily Santiago as Naya Vasquez, a rookie National Park Service ranger who moved to Yosemite from Los Angeles and is assisting Turner with the investigation
Wilson Bethel as Shane Maguire, the wildlife management officer at Yosemite and a former Army Ranger

Recurring

William Smillie as Bruce Milch, a veteran park ranger at Yosemite
Raoul Max Trujillo as Jay Stewart, a park employee and an indigenous friend of Turner who provides insights into local symbols and heritage
Joe Holt as Lawrence Hamilton, the park superintendent, focused on public image amid the crisis
Josh Randall as Scott Bodwin, Jill's current husband, who is a dentist
Ezra Franky as Lucy Cook, the victim known initially as Jane Doe, with a complex backstory involving abuse and disappearance
Nicola Correia-Damude as Esther Avalos, a law firm investigator pressuring Turner over the disappearance of Sean Sanderson, who went missing 6 years ago
Trevor Carroll as Mr. Begay

Production

The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television and studio-based John Wells Productions. It is written by Mark L. Smith and Elle Smith who are also co-showrunners and executive producers alongside Eric Bana, who also stars, John Wells and Erin Jontow via John Wells Productions, Todd Black and Tony Shaw for Escape Artists Entertainment, Steve Lee Jones for Bee Holder Productions, and Cliff Roberts for Syndicate Entertainment. Sam Neill, Lily Santiago, Rosemarie DeWitt and Wilson Bethel joined the cast in June 2024. Filming for the series began in Vancouver, British Columbia in June 2024. Filming locations included Chip Kerr Park.
On July 29, 2025, Netflix renewed the series for a second season.

Release

Untamed premiered on July 17, 2025.

Reception

Viewership

Untamed ranked first on Netflix's English-language TV list for the week of July 14 to 20, 2025, drawing 24.6 million views. For the second week in a row, the series was ranked first again on Netflix's English-language TV list from July 21 to 27, drawing 26.1 million views.

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 83% approval rating based on 64 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Wrangled by Eric Bana's steady star power, Untameds solid murder mystery is elevated by the visually sumptuous backdrop of its Yosemite National Park milieu." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 62 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "generally favorable".
Rebecca Onion of Slate said, "Bana and Smith know how to keep you watching, even when parts of the story start to feel familiar. In the summer, we're all tourists. A Yosemite story hits just right." Reviewing the series for The Guardian, Rebecca Nicholson gave a rating of 3/5. She described it as "not the smartest of thrillers, but those mountains sure are lovely to look at." Ben Travers of IndieWire gave a critical review with a C− and wrote, "By the end, Untamed can only offer more of the same, despite ample opportunity to provide something 'different'."