‘Sirens’ unexpectedly falls out of Netflix top 10 as new series takes over ahead of renewal news and official release date reveal
Sirens has had some time on top of Netflix’s top 10 list for a while now, performing well, but as a miniseries, it probably doesn’t need to go on past this initial run (plus one of its leads needs to go be the new Supergirl). Now, the show has been unseated by something rather strange.
It is not WWE RAW, which is actually in a surprising third place behind both Sirens and the new #1, Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders. Uh, what? Yeah, this happened. Here’s the synopsis of what happened there:
“The story about the crime that shattered the nation around the safety of the brands and one of the largest criminal investigations in U.S history.”
This happened in 1982, and I’ll admit that I never knew this took place. It was a series of poisoning deaths in Chicago where people died from taking cyanide-laced Tylenol, something that was obviously not a factory defect. The most chilling part of all of this is that no one was ever found responsible for what was at least seven deaths from the poisonings.
The new Cold Case series is the length of a movie split into three parts, about 120 minutes in total. I’m not exactly sure why Netflix does this instead of just making it a movie, but it’s been a tradition. Another high-profile entry in the Cold Case series was the murder of Jon Benet Ramsey, as the series focuses on well, Cold Cases that went unsolved, as the name suggests.
I just finished Sirens which I thought was okay. It has good performances from its stars, albeit mired in what was not the greatest plotline and I think it’s going to be an ultimately forgettable series. Even if it wasn’t a miniseries, I would not be in favor of it returning for season 2.
Another new entry to the list comes in at #4, She the People, a Tyler Perry show that spans eight 25-minute episodes as a quick watch, and one that seems to be angling for more series past that. It’s about a politician, her “wacky family” and a bodyguard she seems to have a crush on. It’s a comedy, in case that wasn’t clear.
Further down the list, we have the overperforming The Four Seasons which was greenlit for a second season already. Then the 100%-rated murder mystery, Secrets We Keep, which I’m going to say is probably a 60% at best after having watched it. But hey, make your own judgment.
